Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red--Native American culture, history, and literature--should matter to Americans more than it has to

Modern Women, Modern Work Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 Francesca Sawaya "Sawaya's treatment of the dynamic relationship between discourses of domesticity and professionalism during the early decades of the twentieth century makes a strong contribution to debates about gender, race, and work."--Alice Gambrell, University of Southern California "This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine...