mmis and he treats them with respect while critically unraveling the assumptions, biases, and mistakes that they unwittingly bring to their interpretations of Native American culture.
Hanson, Elizabeth I. Forever There: Race and Gender in Contemporary Native American Fiction. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
Oddly, despite the title of her book, Hanson does not really discuss the interrelated question of race and gender. Her straightforward analyses of McNickle, Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, and others proceed from central themes and relate either questions of race or gender to each. In some cases (e.g., Momaday) she discusses notions of race as developed by the characters--how they perceive, for example, Indianness in relation to White categories and pressures and in others (e.g., Erdrich) she discusses the writer's conception of the feminine and how it is expressed in the characters' behavior. The book lacks a unifying thrust but the individual (brief) chapters are generally informative and critically sharp.
Larson, Charles R. American Indian Fiction. Albuqu
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