Choice 评论
The utility of this bibliography is severely limited because essential terms (e.g., Indian) are never clearly specified. So John Tebbel, who writes historical fiction, most of which is not about Indians, and Jamake Highwater (Gregory Markopoulos), whose ``Indianness'' has been publicly disputed, are included. If about ``novelists,'' why is John Rollin Ridge's fictionalized biography of Joaquin Murieta excluded, or James Tucker's small-press novel included and Joe Bruchac's not? Granting that many of these writers are also poets and nonfiction writers, is this volume the place for citing the publication of their many individual poems or for pages of Oskison's and Tebbel's magazine columns of commentary on everything from TV to travel? This unevenness extends to secondary sources: this bibliography departs from the handful of secondary sources on which it too heavily depends. Rupert Costo's attack on Seven Arrows is cited, but Vine Deloria's important response is not. The inclusion of European criticism, otherwise a nice touch, is also spotty. Finally, the reader does not know the cutoff date for entries, though Louise Erdrich's fiction and Peter Wild's monograph on James Welch should have been included. In short, this book is very unsure of what it is, inadequately reproducing that which could be gleaned more fully from existing bibliographic sources.-A. Wiget, New Mexico State University