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Diane Glancy is one of the outstanding Native American authors of modern times. Working in multiple genres – poetry, novel, theatre and nonfiction – she has created a vast, ceaselessly provocative oeuvre (more than 35 volumes) and an instantly recognizable voice. Her subject matter is astonishingly diverse, encompassing everything from the Cherokee Trail of Tears to the New Testament character of Dorcas, from the lives of small-town Midwestern women to the joys of classic automobiles, from grade school maskmaking to the recuperation of personal heritage in the archives.

The essays in this groundbreaking volume represent the first attempt to systematically survey this challenging writer. Ten outstanding scholars approach her work, mapping out controversies and providing readers of Glancy with various contexts and comparisons through which to understand her ideas. These chapters take a variety of ideological and methodological positions (feminist, Christian, postcolonial, literary-nationalist and more), the better to draw out the complexities of a writer whose work never lets the reader come to easy conclusions.

Also included are an original interview with Glancy herself, a survey of previous criticism and a bibliography of her writings. This volume will therefore serve equally well as an introduction to Glancy for newcomers and as an in-depth survey for people already familiar with her work.

The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy is part of a unique series of companion volumes to Native American poets. Previous subjects include Carter Revard and Jim Barnes.

James Mackay is a lecturer in Comparative Literature at the European University Cyprus. His research interests are in Native American literature, the impact of new technologies on literary study, and the interface between evolutionary science and the humanities. He has previously published articles on Gerald Vizenor, E. Pauline Johnson, and the implications of evolutionary psychology for literary theory.

Crystal Alberts is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota. Her latest publications include a co-edited collection of critical essays on William Gaddis (forthcoming), “Valuable Dregs: William Gaddis the Life of an Artist” and “Three Early Stories by William Gaddis.”

Chadwick Allen is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and, in 2007–2008, was the Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor in the department of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002) and articles on comparative Indigenous literary studies, postcolonial theory, and popular representations of US frontiers.

Birgit Däwes is Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference (2007), and has written extensively on the works of Drew Hayden Taylor, among other playwrights. She is currently editing a volume of essays on the subject of Native American performance.

Helen May Dennis is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she specializes in American Literature. She has published on Elizabeth Bishop, Willa Cather, H.D., Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, troubadour poetry, gender in American literature and culture, and Native American literature. Her book A New Approach to the Poetry of Ezra Pound: Through the Medieval Provençal Aspect was published in 1996, and her Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading was published in 2006. Her poetry has been published in a number of small press publications, most recently in Bluebeard’s Wives (2007).