List of illustrations page ix // Notes on contributors x // Acknowledgments xvi // A note on individual and tribal names xvii // Introduction - KENNETH M. ROEMER 1 // Timeline: literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions - KENNETH M. ROEMER 25 // Part I Historical and cultural contexts // 1. Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature - JOY PORTER 39 // 2. Translation and mediation - DAVID MURRAY 69 // 3. Women writers and gender issues - ANNETTE VAN DYKE 85 // Part II Genre contexts // 4. Non-fiction prose - BERND PEYER 105 // 5. Native American life writing - HERTHA D. SWEET WONG 125 // 6. America’s indigenous poetry - NORMA C. WILSON 145 // 7. Pre-1968 fiction - A. LAVONNE BROWN RUOFF 161 // 8. Fiction: 1968 to the present - JAMES RUPPERT 173 // 9. American Indian theatre - ANN HAUGO 189 // Part in Individual authors // 10. N. Scott Momaday: becoming the bear - CHADWICK ALLEN 207 // II. Simon Ortiz: writing home - PATRICIA CLARK SMITH 221 // 12. James Welch: identity, circumstance, and chance - KATHRYN W. SHANLEY 233 // 13. Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller - ROBERT M. NELSON 245 // 14. Gerald Vizenor: postindian liberation - KIMBERLY M. BLAESER 257 // 15. Louise Erdrich’s storied universe - CATHERINE RAINWATER 271 // 16. Joy Harjo’s poetry - LAURA COLTELLI 283 // 17. Sherman Alexie: irony, intimacy, and agency - DAVID L. MOORE 297 // Bio-bibliographies 311 // Further reading 329 // Index 331