The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina

Drew Lopenzina’s The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature offers a solid stepping-stone for approaching the reading and teaching of Native American literature. Grounded in decolonizing reading practices and pedagogies, the book brings into relief the major challenges readers face when reading Native texts: how to recognize and challenge reading assumptions based on colonial logics and how to learn about Native epistemologies as the basis for our interpretation of literary texts. To address this challenge, Lopenzina argues for positioning readers in Native spaces, a reorientation of perspective that moves them from a Western-centric standpoint to one shaped by Indigenous epistemologies. The book is structured chronologically to guide readers through the development of Native writing from the seventeenth century to the present. Lopenzina takes readers on a journey that starts with Caleb Cheeshateaumauk’s letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England in 1663, written in Latin,...

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