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Cook, Lynn Elizabeth
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice
Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Press 1996 0299151441 / 9780299151447 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Fine
xiv, 158 pp., biblio.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people: who is telling their stories, where does cultural authority lie, and most important, how is it possible to develop an authentic tribal literary voice within the academic community? In the title essay, 'Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner,' Cook-Lynn objects to Stegner's portrayal of the American West in his fiction, contending that no other author has been more successful in serving the interests of the nation's fantasy about itself. When Stegner writes that 'Western history sort of stopped at 1890,' and when he claims the American West as his native land, Cook-Lynn argues, he negates the whole past, present, and future of the native peoples of the continent. Her other essays include discussion of such Native American writers as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear, and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia; the risks to American Indian women in current law practices; the future of Indian Nationalism; and the defense of the land. Cook-Lynn emphasizes that her essays move beyond the narrowly autobiographical, not just about gender and power, not just focused on multiculturalism and diversity, but are about intellectual and political issues that engage readers and writers in Native American studies. Studying the 'Indian,' Cook-Lynn reminds us, is not just an academic exercise but a matter of survival for the lifeways of tribal peoples. Her goal in these essays is to open conversations that can make tribal life and academic life more responsive to one another. / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, is professor emerita of English and Native studies at Eastern Washington University. She is a writer of poetry and fiction, a consultant in Native American studies, and a founding editor of the journal Wicazo Sa Review. Her other books include From the River's Edge, The Power of Horses and Other Stories, Seek the House of Relatives, and Then the Badger Said This." - Publisher.
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