Other Destinies

Understanding the American Indian Novel

by Louis Owens

This critical analysis of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. Owens draws upon a broad range of literary theory to analyze issues of marginalization and cultural survival in the novels of John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, D'arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Erdrich, and more.

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