Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1998
Abstract
Who is Joy Harjo? To anyone familiar with Native American writing and/or contemporary poetry, the obvious answer to this question might be: a Native American poet. Readers familiar with her work might also consider her a Western U. S. writer, since she lives in the Southwest and uses Western landscapes and locales as settings, as vehicles for psychological probing, and as subjects endowed with transcendent power. If these labels seem reductive, other cultural and literary locations Harjo occupies complicate the issue of her identity.
Recommended Citation
Pettit, Rhonda. Joy Harjo. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1998. Digital. Western Writers Series, 133.
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