Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance - Paperback

by James Donahue (Author)

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. This book offers a broad survey of possible means by which narrative theory and critical race theories can productively work together.

Author Biography

James J. Donahue is Associate Professor of English & Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is the author of Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance as well as co-editor of Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States and Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights.