Description: Schweninger considers a range of genres (memoirs, novels, stories, essays) by Native writers. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the "green" labels imposed on American Indians, he shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others.
Brief description: LEE SCHWENINGER is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author or editor of numerous books including The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories and Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape (Georgia).
Review Quotes:
A thrilling exploration of Native American literary culture and tradition . . . written in a tight, smooth, flowing narrative.
--Metro Spirit