Craig Womack
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Craig Womack is an author and professor of Native American literature
. Creek
-Cherokee
by ancestry, Womack is best known for Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, a book of literary criticism
which argues that the dominant approach to academic study of Native American
literature is incorrect. Instead of using poststructural
and postcolonial approaches that do not have their basis in Native culture or experience, Womack claims the work of the Native critic should be to develop tribal models of criticism. Along with Robert Allen Warrior, Jace Weaver and Greg Sarris
, Womack is seen as a second-generation Native American literary scholar, a group that have significantly altered the critical metholodogies used to approach Native American literature.
Womack has also produced a novel, Drowning in Fire, about the lives of young gay Native Americans.
Currently, Womack is employed as a professor at Emory University
, specializing in Native American literature.
Native American Studies
Native American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas...
. Creek
Creek people
The Muscogee , also known as the Creek or Creeks, are a Native American people traditionally from the southeastern United States. Mvskoke is their name in traditional spelling. The modern Muscogee live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida...
-Cherokee
Cherokee
The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...
by ancestry, Womack is best known for Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, a book of literary criticism
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
which argues that the dominant approach to academic study of Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
literature is incorrect. Instead of using poststructural
Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...
and postcolonial approaches that do not have their basis in Native culture or experience, Womack claims the work of the Native critic should be to develop tribal models of criticism. Along with Robert Allen Warrior, Jace Weaver and Greg Sarris
Greg Sarris
Gregory Michael Sarris is a college professor, author, screenwriter, and a member and current Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. He was chosen in 2005 to fill the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University...
, Womack is seen as a second-generation Native American literary scholar, a group that have significantly altered the critical metholodogies used to approach Native American literature.
Womack has also produced a novel, Drowning in Fire, about the lives of young gay Native Americans.
Currently, Womack is employed as a professor at Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
, specializing in Native American literature.
See also
- Native American StudiesNative American StudiesNative American Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas...
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
External links
- Womack's University of Oklahoma listing
- Canonizing Craig Womack, article in the American Indian QuarterlyAmerican Indian QuarterlyAmerican Indian Quarterly is an academic journal devoted to the indigenous peoples of North and South America.-See also:*Journal of Indigenous Studies*AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples*Indigenous Law Centre...
. - 2005 Interview with blogccritics magazine