Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, and of the Mobil Pegasus Prize and the New Zealand Book Award in 1984, this novel is the first work by a part-Māori New Zealand author to receive international attention and awards. It… Read More ›
indigenous literature
Native American Oral Literature
The first-time student of Native American oral literature confronts at once two daunting, though not insurmountable, facts. First, there is the incredible variety of Indian oral culture; by some estimates, at the beginning of European exploration more than five hundred… Read More ›
The Native American Renaissance
An issue of much debate and contention is how to refer to people whose heritage goes back to pre-Columbian times on the North and South American continents. The term Indian is based on Christopher Columbus’s mistaken belief that he had… Read More ›
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