Category: Native American Literature and Culture

Scott Richard Lyons, ed., The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature (Albany: State U of New York P, 2017), 330 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 The collection of critical essays The World, the Text, and the Indian edited by Scott Richard Lyons is a noteworthy contribution to the…

Shamoon Zamir, The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2014), 334 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 By the time the first volume of Edward S. Curtis’s work on The North American Indian was published in 1907, the scholarly…

Manuel Menrath, Mission Sitting Bull: Die Geschichte der katholischen Sioux (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016), 372 pp. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.3 In the course of approaching American history with the methods of New Western History, a rich body of studies has emerged that reveals the vastness of Native American experiences in a new distinctiveness. In his new…

HILARY E. WYSS, English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2012), 264 pp. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.3 In recent years there has been a noteworthy increase in studies of Native America.[1] Like Drew Lopenzina’s Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial…

SCOTT RICHARD LYONS, ed., The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature (Albany: State U of New York P, 2017), 330 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 The collection of critical essays The World, the Text, and the Indian edited by Scott Richard Lyons is a noteworthy contribution to the fields…

SHAMOON ZAMIR, The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2014), 334 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 By the time the first volume of Edward S. Curtis’s work on The North American Indian was published in 1907, the scholarly discourse…

MANUEL MENRATH, Mission Sitting Bull: Die Geschichte der katholischen Sioux (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016), 372 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 In the course of approaching American history with the methods of New Western History, a rich body of studies has emerged that reveals the vastness of Native American experiences in a new distinctiveness. In his…

Hilary E. Wyss, English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2012), 264 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 In recent years there has been a noteworthy increase in studies of Native America.[1] Like Drew Lopenzina’s Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the…