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Article: Culturalism and its discontents: David Treuer's Native American fiction: a user's manual.(Book review)
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- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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We usually date the beginnings of Native American fiction from John Rollin Ridge's rather odd novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, published in 1854; the first Native American novel by a woman is S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, a Child of the Forest (1891). Just after the turn of the twentieth century the body of Native American fiction increased with the appearance of short fiction by Zitkala-Sa, Pauline Johnson, and John Milton Oskison, who would later publish full-length novels in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1927 Mourning Dove, aided by or interfered with by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, published Cogewea, the Half-Blood: ...