Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, eds.
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
This collection of contemporary Native American autobiographies
presents the writer as much a transmitter of Indian culture as an
individual. What we know of as "autobiography" has no precedent
in Native American culture; the form has only recently been
explored. Issues of home and place, and of identity, all speak
loudly from these authors' works.
