BA Global Professorship - Professor Gregory Smithers (Virginia Commonwealth University )

Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature (2005)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2005). Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature. In J. Porter, & K. M. Roemer (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature : Part I - Historical and cultural contexts (39-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831.002

Literature tells truths about the past that history cannot articulate. This is a truism with particular resonance in the Native American context because until the watershed years of the late 1960s and early 1970s Indians were either ignored or grossl... Read More about Historical and cultural contexts to native American literature.