"Arnold Krupat is a deeply respected scholar. He has done much to help the world contextualize relationships between Native American literary voices and the American canon. a book that so powerfully details aspects of the Native American response to loss and death. Krupat is strongest when tackling the specifics of intercultural differences." --Joy Porter (The Journal of American History) Arnold Krupat offers an intensive, detailed, and well-researched literary analysis of Native American elegy from the 16th to the late 20th century. Krupat''s book clarifies the differences between traditional Native American and Euro-American elegiac expression, making it a great addition to the shelves of Native American, western, and borderlands scholars. - Scott Comar (Pacific Northwest Quarterly) Assessing the nature of elegy in Native American oral and written expression, Krupat looks at the way such elegiac material develops a sense of healing not through a focus on the loss of an individual but by contributing to a continuance of the community, the people. This is a careful, revealing, and engaging contribution to the historical examination of oral and written expression of Native American experience.

(Choice) To his credit, and to our good fortune, Krupat opted to resist the temptation to hold that there was no such thing as Native American elegy, and, critically, he opted to recognize crucialdifferences between elegies first spoken and later written by Native Americans and those penned by European and Euro-American writers.Readers in general will recognize that Krupat, a scholar who has devoted his academic life to the study of Native American literatures, has produced a book both careful and caring, a book that will reward thoughtful attention. - Chris Lalonde (Great Plains Quarterly)an individual but by contributing to a continuance of the community, the people. This is a careful, revealing, and engaging contribution to the historical examination of oral and written expression of Native American experience.(Choice) To his credit, and to our good fortune, Krupat opted to resist the temptation to hold that there was no such thing as Native American elegy, and, critically, he opted to recognize crucialdifferences between elegies first spoken and later written by Native Americans and those penned by European and Euro-American writers.Readers in general will recognize that Krupat, a scholar who has devoted his academic life to the study of Native American literatures, has produced a book both careful and caring, a book that will reward thoughtful attention. - Chris Lalonde (Great Plains Quarterly)an individual but by contributing to a continuance of the community, the people. This is a careful, revealing, and engaging contribution to the historical examination of oral and written expression of Native American experience.

(Choice) To his credit, and to our good fortune, Krupat opted to resist the temptation to hold that there was no such thing as Native American elegy, and, critically, he opted to recognize crucialdifferences between elegies first spoken and later written by Native Americans and those penned by European and Euro-American writers.Readers in general will recognize that Krupat, a scholar who has devoted his academic life to the study of Native American literatures, has produced a book both careful and caring, a book that will reward thoughtful attention. - Chris Lalonde (Great Plains Quarterly)an individual but by contributing to a continuance of the community, the people. This is a careful, revealing, and engaging contribution to the historical examination of oral and written expression of Native American experience.(Choice) To his credit, and to our good fortune, Krupat opted to resist the temptation to hold that there was no such thing as Native American elegy, and, critically, he opted to recognize crucialdifferences between elegies first spoken and later written by Native Americans and those penned by European and Euro-American writers.Readers in general will recognize that Krupat, a scholar who has devoted his academic life to the study of Native American literatures, has produced a book both careful and caring, a book that will reward thoughtful attention. - Chris Lalonde (Great Plains Quarterly)ritten expression of Native American experience.(Choice) To his credit, and to our good fortune, Krupat opted to resist the temptation to hold that there was no such thing as Native American elegy, and, critically, he opted to recognize crucialdifferences between elegies first spoken and later written by Native Americans and those penned by European and Euro-American writers.

Readers in general will recognize that Krupat, a scholar who has devoted his academic life to the study of Native American literatures, has produced a book both careful and caring, a book that will reward thoughtful attention. - Chris Lalonde (Great Plains Quarterly).