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Stripes, James D. "Spring Wind Rising: The American Indian Novel and the Problem of History," American Studies Program, Washington State University, August 1994.
This work suggests American Indian fiction writers (James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and Gerald Vizenor) challenge histories and policies grounded in assumptions of the conquest and cultural extinction of indigenous peoples. Their works embrace cultural sovereignty, I argue, insofar as they deflate nostalgic efforts to recover lost memories, disrupt linear models of assimilation, attack legal manifestations of the guardian-ward system of tropes, and interrogate the circumvention of resistance in binary oppositions. I challenge historians to consider the modes of fiction more seriously as discourses of history, while maintaining that multiculturalisms cannot proceed without certain conventions of historiography.
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