The Indian in Southwestern Fiction

Author

Ella Brice Morris Kennedy

Publication Date

5-26-1938

Abstract

To the writer of fiction who has his ear to the ground, the recent multiplication of books in Indian fictional literature in the Southwest offers both a hint and a challenge. For years the growth of Indian fiction in the Southwest was slow and its product unimportant, and this in spite of the fact that excellent examples were set by both Helen Hunt Jackson and Adolf Bandelier . Perhaps the primitive mind was thought too rudimentary for the complex psychological studies popular in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Thomas Matthews Pearce

Second Committee Member

Dane Farnsworth Smith

Third Committee Member

Lynn B. Mitchell

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Kennedy, Ella Brice Morris. "The Indian in Southwestern Fiction." (1938). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/152