Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library (Paperback))

ISBN 10: 0375751386 / ISBN 13: 9780375751387

Published by Random House Publishing Group, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library (Paperback))
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375751386
• ISBN 13: 9780375751387
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their lives and their art. Each essay demonstrates the breadth of experience of twenty-seven individuals united in the creative expression of a Native American heritage. Each has a different relation to that heritage, and in describing it through personal and family history, with verse and in anecdotes, the writers give a strong image of the different cultures that have shaped them. This is living history and the kind of collective memoir that makes for fascinating and rewarding reading--one of the most vivid and diverse portraits of Native American culture available today.

About the Author

Arnold Krupat is the author of several books, including The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture and the novel Woodsmen, or Thoreau and the Indians. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Brian Swann has published a number of collections of poetry and fiction, including Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. He teaches at the Cooper Union in New York City.