Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice

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With Feminist Readings of Native American Literature| Kathleen Donovan takes an important first step in examining how studies in these two fields inform and influence one another. Focusing on the works of N. Scott Momaday| Joy Harjo| Paula Gunn Allen| and others| Donovan analyzes the texts of these well-known writers| weaving a supporting web of feminist criticism throughout. Drawing on the related fields of ethnography| ethnopoetics| eco-feminism| and post-colonialism| Feminist Readings of Native American Literature offers the first systematic study of the intersection between two dynamic arenas in literary studies today.