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Peer reviewedPurdy, John; Hausman, Blake; Ortiz, Simon – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2000
Pueblo author Simon Ortiz discusses Indigenous authors' use of their native language as a form of self-assertion, pointing out how African literature drives the decolonizing impulse in literature today. Use of the dominant language would reach a larger audience but would also make transmission of colonizers' cultural assumptions unavoidable while…
Descriptors: Acculturation, African Literature, American Indian Languages, American Indian Literature
