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Overview
Long, before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson 1861-1913 pioneered the field. A mixed-blood of Mohawk-English descent, Johnson gained renown for her literary recitals and theatrical performances in Canada, England, and the United States, being billed at turn of the century as the "Mohawk Princess". Many of Johnson's stories in The Moccasin Maker depict nineteenth-century India women cause between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation.Critics in Johnson's own day praised her treatment of Indian themes and her descriptions of nature, but they ignored her vivid portrayals of women. In this edition of Johnson's stories, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff corrects this oversight and provides an extensive introduction and annotations to place Johnson and her work solidly within the genres of American Indian and women's fiction.
Synopsis
It is a far cry from a wigwam to Westminster, from a prairie trail to the Tower Bridge, and London looks a strange place to the Red Indian whose eyes still see the myriad forest trees, even as they gaze across the Strand, and whose feet still feel the clinging moccasin even among the scores of clicking heels that hurry along the thoroughfares of this camping-ground of the paleface.