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Geary Hobson
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Dr. Hobson at geary.hobson-1@ou.edu
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| Professor Hobson is the editor of
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of
Contemporary Native American Literature
(University of New Mexico Press, 1979) and
The People Who Stayed: Southeastern
Indian Writing After Removal (2010),
author of Deer Hunting and Other Poems
(Point Riders Press, 1990), The Last
of the Ofos (University of Arizona
Press, 2000), a novel, and Plain of
Jars and Other Stories (2011). A
book of essays, The Rise of the White
Shaman: Essays and Reviews, 1970-2000,
is currently in press. He has published
poems, short stories, critical articles,
book reviews, and historical essays in The
Greenfield Review, Arizona
Quarterly, Contact/II, Western
American Literature, World
Literature Today, Y'Bird and
other journals. Recently, his work has
appeared in such anthologies as American
Indian
Literature (1991), Growing Up
Native American (1993), Returning
the Gift (1994), and Aniyunwiya/Real
Human Beings: An Anthology of
Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995).
Among his current projects are The
Literature of Indian Country, a
critical and historical study of Native
American writing and publishing from 1968
to 1992; a second novel; a second book of
poems; a second collection of essays and
other nonfiction writing. Professor Hobson
teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
in Native American and American
literature. He believes that students
learn more about literature when they
consider the written works as products
totally of the social and cultural milieu
of which the works are a part. |
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