The Perils of Native American Urbanization and Alcoholism in Janet Campbell Hale’s The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

Year 1998, Issue: 8, 51 - 63, 01.10.1998

Frederick Hale

Abstract

In the imaginative literature that has furnished much of the impetus for and intellectual backbone of the so-called “Native American Renaissance” since the late 1960s, the tribulations of urbanization have been a relatively frequent but nevertheless underdeveloped theme. This has been so although one of the side effects of this urbanization, immoderate consumption of alcohol, has virtually been a leitmotiv in this literature.

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