For Those Who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography

by Arnold Krupat

Overview

Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520066069
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/06/1989
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Arnold Krupat is a member of the Literature faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xxvii
1	An Approach to Native American Texts	1
2	Indian Autobiography: Origins, Type, and Function	28
3	History, Science, and Geronimo's Story	54
4	The Case of Crashing Thunder	75
5	Yellow Wolf and Black Elk: History and Transcendence	107
	Notes	137
	Selected Bibliography	153
	Index	163

Editorial Reviews

The editor has done a remarkable job of bringing together a collection of major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present.
—The Indian Trader

Martin Link