Research Guides: English 468/568: Reading Experiments: Form, Genre, Literary Tradition

Form, Genre, Literary Tradition: Whereas

Sources for understanding the form, genre, and literary traditions related to Whereas by Layli Long Soldier.

Introduction: What Was Native American Literature?
Taylor, Melanie Benson. “Introduction: What Was Native American Literature?” The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, edited by Melanie Benson Taylor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 1–14.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Call Number: eBook
An informative and wide-ranging overview of literature by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day.

America's Indigenous Poetry
Wilson, Norma C. “America’s Indigenous Poetry.” The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 145–160. Cambridge Companions to Literature.
Contemporary Indigenous American Poetry
Rader, Dean. “Contemporary Indigenous American Poetry.” The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, edited by Melanie Benson Taylor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 395–412.
How Poetry Came to Matter Again
Lichenstein, Jesse. "How Poetry Came to Matter Again." The Atlantic, September 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/chen-chen-aziza-barnes-layli-long-soldier/565781/.

Poetry
Call Number: eBook
Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems. Includes explanation of poetic forms such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry.