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Living to Tell the Tale |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Louis Owens |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,092 Words, 13,257 Characters |
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MOUNTAIN WINDSONG
A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Robert J. Conley
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma, 1992
218 pp., $19.95
DEAD VOICES
Natural Agonies in the New World
Gerald Vizenor
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992
152 pp., $17.95
Since James Fennimore Cooper's ultimate Mohican padded stealthily out of the eastern forests, Americans and Europeans have loved literary Indians. Real-life, contemporary Native Americans can be somewhat disturbing. Because they often come from reservations where 80 percent unemployment, the scourge of fetal alcohol syndrome, and the highest teenage suicide rate in the nation make life hard, living and breathing Indians aren't very romantic material. Literary Indians, on the other hand, are quite the opposite: safe, seren...
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...el. The wonderful strength of Dead Voices is that it challenges us not to read about Vanishing Americans but to join in imaginative play in the tradition of Native America; it appropriates the imagination in sublime subversion.
Together, these novels suggest the stunning range of contemporary Native American writing. Somewhere today, surely, a Mohican is penning the ultimate Deerslayer.
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