Companion to James Welch's the Heartsong of Charging Elk(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Companion to James Welch's the Heartsong of Charging Elk(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by University of Nebraska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803254326 (ISBN 10) and 9780803254329 (ISBN 13).

James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; is left behind in Marseille, France; and then struggles to overcome many hardships, including a charge for murder. In this novel Welch conveys some of the lifeways and language of a traditional Sioux. Here for the first time is a literary companion to James Welch's Heartsong that includes an unpublished chapter of the first draft of the novel; selections from interviews with the author; a memoir by the author's widow, Lois Welch; and essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide range of topics. The rich resources presented here make this volume an essential addition to the study of James Welch and twentieth-century Native American literature.