Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of the field.The Handbook's forty-three essays, organized into four sections, cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, and other forms of Indigenous American writing from the seventeenth through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to literary histories across a range of communities, providing, for example, analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Métis literary practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and historical contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss Indigenous non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography, Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada, and even a new Indigenous children's literature canon. The third section delves into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to expound on politics of place, comparative Indigenism, trans-Indigenism, Native rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous writing to communities of readers. A final section thoroughly explores the geographical breadth and expanded definition of Indigenous American through detailed accounts of literature from Indian Territory, the Red Atlantic, the far North, Yucatán, Amerika Samoa, and Francophone Quebec.Together, the volume is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to date. It is the first to fully take into account the last twenty years of recovery and scholarship, and the first to most significantly address the diverse range of texts, secondary archives, writing traditions, literary histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical discourses in the field.

Introduction - "Post-Renaissance Native American and Indigenous American Literary Studies," James H. Cox and Daniel H. JusticePart I - Histories1. "The Sovereign Obscurity of Inuit Literature," Keavy Martin2. "At the Crossroads of Red/Black Literature," Kiara Vigil and Tiya Miles3. "Ambivalence and Contradiction in Contemporary Maya Literature from Yucatan: Jorge Cocom Pech's Muk'ult'an in Nool [Grandfather's Secrets]" Emilio Del Valle Escalante4. "Early Native Literature, U.S.," Phillip Round5. "Nineteenth-Century Native Literature," Maureen Konkle6. "Hawaiian Literature in Hawaiian: An Overview," Noenoe K. Silvama7. "Metis Identity and Literature," Kristina Fagan Bidwell8. "Queering Indigenous Pasts, or Temporalities of Tradition and Settlement," Mark Rifkin9. "Singing Forwards and Backwards: Ancestral and Contemporary Chamorro Poetics," Craig Santos Perez10. "Indigenous Orality and Oral Literatures," Christopher Teuton11. "Anishinaabendamowaad Epichii Zhibiaamowaad: Anishinaabe Literature," Margaret NoodinPart II - Genres12. "Native Nonfiction," Robert Warrior13. "Towards a Native American Women's Autobiographical Tradition: Genre as Political Practice," Crystal Kurzen14. "Ixtlamatiliztli / Knowledge with the Face: Intellectual Migrations and ColonialDis-placements in Natalio Hernández's Xochikoskatl," Adam Coon15. "'our leaves of paper will be / dancing lightly': Indigenous Poetics," Sophie Mayer16. "Natives and Performance Culture," LeAnne Howe17. "Published Native American Drama, 1980?2011," Alexander Pettit18. "Indigenous American Cinema," Denise K. Cummings19. "Reading the Visual, Seeing the Verbal: Text and Image in Recent American Indian Literature and Art," Dean Rader20. "The Indigenous Novel," Sean Kicummah Teuton21. "Indigenous Children's Literature," Loriene Roy22. "Red Dead Conventions: American Indian Transgenric Fictions," Jodi ByrdPart III - Methods23. "Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water" Shari Huhndorf24. "Decolonizing Comparison: Towards a Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies," Chadwick Allen25. "Indigenous Trans/Nationalism and the Ethics of Theory in Native Literary Studies," Joseph Bauerkemper26. "Beyond Continuance: Criticism of Indigenous Literatures in Canada," SamMcKegney27. "All that is Native and Fine: Teaching Native American Literature," Frances Washburn28. "Teaching Native Literature in a Multi-Ethnic Classroom," Channette Romero29. "Between 'Colonizer-Perpetrator' and 'Colonizer-Ally': Towards a Pedagogy of Redress," Renate Eigenbrod30. "Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen," Craig Womack31. "A basket is a basket because...: telling a Native rhetorics story," Malea Powell32. "The Making and Remaking of the Mestiza: New Tribalism and the Expression of an Indigenous Identity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa," Domino Renee PerezPart IV - Geographies33. "Literature and the Red Atlantic," Jace Weaver34. "The Re/Presentation of the Indigenous Caribbean in Literature," Shona Jackson35. "Writing and Lasting: Native Northeastern Literary History," Lisa Brooks36. "Decolonizing the Indigenous Oratures and Literatures of Northern British North America and Canada (Beginnings to 1960)," Margery Fee37. "Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960-2012)," Warren Cariou38. "Amerika Samoa: Writing Home," Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard39. "Native Literatures of Alaska," James Ruppert40. "The Popol Wuj and the Birth of Mayan Literature," Thomas Ward41. "Keeping Oklahoma Indian Territory: Alice Callahan and John Oskison (Indian Enough)," Joshua B. Nelson42. "Francophone Aboriginal Literature in Quebec," Sarah HenziAfterwords43. "I ka '?lelo ke Ola, in Words is Life: Imagining the Future of Indigenous Literatures," ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui