Books written by Lee Schweninger

  • Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film
    Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

    “Ethno— graphic film offers an impression of authenticity,” writes Bill Nichols, and it leaves the viewer with the important “impression that the ethnographer was there and that his or her representation is, therefore, to be trusted” ...

  • Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape
    Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape

    Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the “green” labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to ...

  • Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film
    Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

    In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective, examining films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native.

  • N. Scott Momaday
    N. Scott Momaday

    "Gale Study Guides to Great Literature is a unique reference line composed of three series: "Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces and "Literary Topics. Convenient, comprehensive and targeted toward current coursework, these...

  • John Winthrop
    John Winthrop

    A study approaching John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, as a literary artist rather than a historian. The author examines the governor's writings in their political, social and theological contexts,...

  • The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories
    The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories

    In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (2007), for example, Cynthia Culver Prescott concentrates on gender roles and argues that “during the time on the trail and early years of settlement, the strains of frontier life ...

  • Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film
    Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film

    In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective, examining films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native.