That the people might live : Native American literatures and Native American community / Jace Weaver.

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Weaver focuses on studying Native American literature as a reflectionand shaper of community values, especially for modern urban Native Americans. For cultures so gravitized by oral tradition, the written word has become the messenger of culture and religion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weaver, Jace, 1957-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:	United States. Electronic books. Indigenous literature > United States > History and criticism. American literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism. Indigenous peoples of North America > Religion. Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Genre:	Electronic books.
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Physical Description:	xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Native American literatures and communitism
Occom's Razor and Ridge's Masquerade (18th-19th Century)
Assimilation, apocalypticism, and reform (1900-1967)
Indian literary renaissance and the continuing search for community (1968- )
Conclusion: Anger times imagination.