Description
[G/C] Recent decades have brought an efflorescence of creativity among poets, prose writers, and dramatists of Native American/Indigenous heritage. That body of work transcends stereotyped images of reservation squalor or sentimental images of vanishing cultures. Native/Indigenous writers wrestle with postcolonial concerns of tribal sovereignty, cultural appropriation and commodification, identity/blood quantum, and language preservation; the reality that the majority of Natives who do not live on reservations and often confront urban and intertribal concerns; the epidemic of murdered and missing Native women; veterans’ concerns; and Native experience in a global context that includes environmental threats, especially from the extraction economy. Authors considered include Sherman Alexie, Kimberly Blaeser, Trevino Brings Plenty, Natalie Diaz, Diane Glancy, Joy Harjo, Allison Hedge Coke, Geary Hobson, Linda Hogan, LeAnne Howe, Bojan Louis, Mary Catherine Nagle, Linda Rodriguez, Kim Shu