“An astute and major accomplishment. . . . Highly recommended.”—R. Welburn, Choice
“At its best, this collection places Owens in meaningful relation to Indigenous literary-field formation while also directing us to his interventions in US literary history.”—Susan Bernardin, Transmotion
“This outstanding collection does the urgent and necessary work of bringing Louis Owens out of the scholarly shadows, recentering his achievement within the traditions of American literature and Native American literature alike.”—Deborah L. Madsen, editor of The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature
“Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy offers the first comprehensive study of the entirety of Owens’s work, from his literary scholarship to his autobiographical essays to his novels. Placing him in transnational contexts, the authors trace Owens’s contributions to Native American literature, specifically, and to American literature, generally. Noting Owens’s focus on memory, land, and mixed-blood experience, they explore his intertextuality, anti-coloniality, and indigenization in the mystery novel, eco-criticism, modernism, and transnational American studies.”—Hertha D. Sweet Wong, author of
