Literary Annotated Bibliography

Hanson, Elizabeth I. Forever There: Race and Gender in Contemporary Native American Fiction. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Larson, Charles R. American Indian Fiction. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1978.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

Ruppert, James. Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1995.

Swann, Brian, ed. Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.

Velie, Alan R. Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1982.

Vizenor, Gerald, ed. Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1989.

Wiget, Andrew, ed. Critical Essays on Native American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985.

Wiget, Andrew. Native American Literature. Boston: Twayne, 1985.

Gish, Robert Franklin. Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano Literature. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1996.

Two sections of Gish's book deal with "Anglo Visitors" and "Indian Voices," the third is entitled "Chicano Vistas." His d

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similar the problems of Native Americans have been across the century and how this persistence is the source of a change of view about assimilation versus preserving tradition and ethnic affiliation. Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. Ruoff has made a complete survey of Native American literature prior to the late 1980s. Rather than brief biographical notices accompanied by mere descriptions of the various works, however, he integrates brief critical commentaries and develops themes. He is especially interesting on the change from assimilation-oriented works of the earliest Native Americans who wrote in English to the dawning realization that neither culture was terribly interested in this solution. Excellent summaries of various works that clearly indicate Ruoff's own enthusiasms and either make the reader want to read out-of-the-way works or avoid them. (In some ways it is a book in which it would be best to read the sections on writers the reader knows first, in order to get a clear picture of Ruoff's own tastes). Also features an extensive review of the critical literature. Ruppert
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