Simon Ortiz Poet Legacy of Indigenous Continuance
Simon Ortiz Poet Legacy of Indigenous Continuance
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This edited volume from Acoma author Simon Ortiz, is devoted to the depth and range of Ortiz's contribution to contemporary Native American literature and literary scholarship. Showing his role in the development of cultural studies and Native American literatures on a number of fronts, garnering tribal, regional, national, hemispheric, and global levels of awareness and appreciation. Includes interviews with author, short creative nonfiction essays by Native women writers and scholars, and innovative critical discussions by a dozen scholars of Native literatures.
Simon J. Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with more than two dozen volumes of poetry, prose fiction, children's literature, and nonfiction work. This volume shows his role in the development of cultural studies and Native American literatures on a number of fronts, garnering tribal, regional, national, hemispheric, and global levels of awareness and appreciation.
Paperback: 440 pages