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simon j. ortiz a poetic legacy of indigenous continuance
p 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 childrens literature and nonfiction work to his credit and his being anthologized around the world . this edited volume is devoted to the depth and range of ortizs contribution to contemporary native american literature and literary scholarship . p including interviews with ortiz short creative nonfiction essays by native women writers and scholars and innovative critical discussions by a dozen scholars of native literatures the 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 . the range of scholarship herein sheds light on the larger historical cultural and political factors that have shaped native writing over the last four decades . p this volume reveals the insights and aesthetics of ortizs indigenous lens which provides invaluable contributions to literary studies that turn to the postcolonial the ecocritical the globally indigenous and comparative as indigenous geographies of belonging are found to inform an aesthetics of inclusion and authenticity .
paperback university of new mexico press 2009 isbn13 9780826339881 isbn10 0826339883
abridged n isbn 13 9780826339881 number in series 1 number of pages 424 publisher univ of new mexico pr release date 62135769600000