The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature

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Summary: Remembered Earth
Review: The Remembered Earth, edited by Geary Hobson, may have been the first anthology exclusively containing Native American literature. It is by far the most comprehensive one that I have come across. The works in the anthology cut across all literary genres (poetry, short stories, drama, etc) and cover most of the regions in the U.S. It includes works by who are now major figures in the literary world-Leslie Marmon Silko and N. Scott Momaday for example-but it also includes a great sample of little know authors. My only quibble with the book is that there is no index, the table of contents is arranged by author and not by their work, and their is not a lot of biographical info included about the authors. Those small quibbles aside, The Remembered Earth is a wonderful book that covers an extraordinary group of artists that often do not make it into the literary canon.