Leanne Howe At The Intersections Of Southern And Native American Literature (Southern Literary Studies)

With the publication of her first novel, Shell Shaker (2001), Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe quickly emerged as a crucial voice in twenty-first-century American literature. Her innovative, award-winning works of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism capture the complexities of Native American life and interrogate histories of both cultural and linguistic oppression throughout the United States. In the first monograph to consider HoweÆs entire body of work, LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature, Kirstin L. Squint expands contemporary scholarship on Howe by examining her nuanced portrayal of Choctaw history and culture as modes of expression. Squint shows that HoweÆs writings engage with Native, southern, and global networks by probing regional identity, gender power, authenticity, and performance from a distinctly Choctaw perspectiveùa method of discourse which Howe terms ôChoctalking.ö Drawing on interdisciplinary methodologies and theories, Squint complicates prevailing models of the Native South by proposing the concept of the ôInterstate South,ö a space in which Native Americans travel physically and metaphorically between tribal national and U.S. boundaries. Squint considers HoweÆs engagement with these interconnected spaces and cultures, as well as how indigeneity can circulate throughout them. This important critical workùwhich includes an appendix with a previously unpublished interview with Howeùcontributes to ongoing conversations about the Native South, positioning Howe as a pivotal creative force operating at under-examined points of contact between Native American and southern literature.

• | Author: Kirstin L. Squint
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0807168718
• | ISBN-13: 9780807168714