I Remain Alive: The Sioux Literary Renaissance by Heflin, Ruth J.
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I Remain Alive: The Sioux Literary Renaissance by Heflin, Ruth J.

I Remain Alive: The Sioux Literary Renaissance

Syracuse University Press
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In I Remain Alive, Ruth J. Heflin explores the literary endeavors of five of the most prominent Native American writers from the turn of the century-Charles Eastman, Gertrude Bonnin, Luther Standing Bear, Nicholas Black
Elk, and Ella Deloria-and challenges the traditional view of Native American literature.

It is widely accepted that the Native American Literary Renaissance began in 1968 with N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn. With this book, however, Heflin shows that the Sioux embarked on their own literary renaissance beginning in 1890 with the articles of Eastman, soon after the battle of Wounded Knee. The Sioux nation produced more booklength manuscripts in this period between Wounded Knee and the end of World War II
than any other tribe. Moreover, their writings were not just autobiographical, as is typically thought, but anthropological, including fiction and nonfiction, and highly stylized memoir.

No other transitional nation produced writers who wrote so extensively for the general American audience, let alone so many works that incorporated both Native American and Western literary techniques.

Their stories helped shape the future of America; its identity; its developing appreciation of nature; its acceptance of alternative religions and medical practices; an awareness of the oral tradition; and a sense of multiculturalism.
In this book, Heflin seeks to place these writers alongside American and English modernist work and within mainstream literature.

Author: Ruth J. Heflin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 07/01/2000
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780815628057
ISBN10: 0815628056
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- Literary Criticism | American | General

About the Author
Ruth J. Heflin is assistant professor of English at Kansas City, Kansas Community College. She is a contributor to The Black Elk Reader, also published by Syracuse University Press.