In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges personal and professional experiences of the provocative and often controversial writer Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, who narrates the story of her intellectual life in the field of American Indian studies.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is professor emerita of English and Native Studies at Eastern Washington University. She received the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and won the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. She co-founded Wícazo Ša Review and is the author of several books, including Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice; New Indians, Old Wars; A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations; and Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth.
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