The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature in addition to an extensive Introduction and Timeline: Literary, Historical and Cultural Conjunctions, has seventeen essays written by experts. Kenneth M. Roemer's comprehensive introductory essay addresses the issue of what Native American Literature is. Oral as well as written literatures are considered in their “immensity and diversity” (p. 4). Roemer examines a diversity of approaches ranging, for example, from the historical, the thematic, to the genre, and motifs based. His timeline begins in 1772 with the speech sermon of Samson Occom on the Execution of Moses Paul and concludes in 2004 with “Cecilia...