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

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

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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