The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day. In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts--Native and non-Native; American British and European scholars--it includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors maps suggestions for further reading and a timeline which details major works of Native American and mainstream American literature as well as significant social cultural and historical events.