The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literature - by Mareike Neuhuas (Paperback)

About the Book

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical traditions that underpin its cultural and historical contexts.

Book Synopsis

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical traditions that underpin its cultural and historical contexts.

About the Author

Mareike Neuhaus, author of the acclaimed book "That's Raven Talk," is an independent scholar specializing in North American Indigenous literature and Canadian literature.