Description: From Kirkus ReviewsBook reviews dressed up as essays; slipshod polemic dressed up as scholarly discourse. It is not so much that Sioux novelist, poet, and academic Cook-Lynn (From the River's Edge, 1991, etc.) cannot read the work of the late Western historian and novelist Wallace Stegner; it is that she will not (``my reading in the work of Wallace Stegner is minimally undertaken''). She builds this thin collection around a misapprehension of Stegner's thought, namely, that he maintains that American Indian history (and, by implication, American Indian life) ends in 1890, with the closing of the frontier. As a result, Cook-Lynn goes on to assert that Indian history should be written by Indians alone. In some cases she makes good points, as when she dissects Ruth Beebe Hill's allegedly factual account of the Sioux in the spun-from-whole-cloth novel Hanta Yo, but she is hard-pressed to know w…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. Light markings and/or highlighting.
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Book Title: Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays : a Tribal Voice
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Topic: Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, American / General, Literary
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
