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From the Editors

From the Editors This issue of SAIL marks the completion of the first volume year shepherded through the publication process by the new editorial team, and it seems fitting that so much of the issue's content is reflective. The critical essays by Eric Wolfe and Caroline Wigginton offer nuanced analyses of our field's historical archive, drawing compelling understandings from two of the earliest Native writers in English, William Apess and Samson Occom. Whether asking new and important questions of one of Apess's more familiar texts or bringing Occom's least-studied writings to an engaged critical awareness, these scholars highlight the significance of these early writers to both the aesthetic and intellectual genealogies of Native literary expression. Similarly, the two tributes included in this issue are a reminder that our field is one with a rich textual heritage that, while developed and maintained by a growing community of thoughtfully committed scholars, also has its paradigm-shifting figures without whom the field would be much poorer in both imaginative scope and actual production. On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of House Made of Dawn, Jace Weaver reminds us that the contributions N. Scott Momaday has made to Native literature and American letters go well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Indian Literatures University of Nebraska Press

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This issue of SAIL marks the completion of the first volume year shepherded through the publication process by the new editorial team, and it seems fitting that so much of the issue's content is reflective. The critical essays by Eric Wolfe and Caroline Wigginton offer nuanced analyses of our field's historical archive, drawing compelling understandings from two of the earliest Native writers in English, William Apess and Samson Occom. Whether asking new and important questions of one of Apess's more familiar texts or bringing Occom's least-studied writings to an engaged critical awareness, these scholars highlight the significance of these early writers to both the aesthetic and intellectual genealogies of Native literary expression. Similarly, the two tributes included in this issue are a reminder that our field is one with a rich textual heritage that, while developed and maintained by a growing community of thoughtfully committed scholars, also has its paradigm-shifting figures without whom the field would be much poorer in both imaginative scope and actual production. On the fortieth anniversary of the publication of House Made of Dawn, Jace Weaver reminds us that the contributions N. Scott Momaday has made to Native literature and American letters go well

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Studies in American Indian Literatures – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Feb 1, 2008

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