House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn is a novel by N. Scott Momaday, widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.

Plot summary

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Analysis

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Allusions/references to actual history, geography and science

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Publishers
Originally published by Harper & Row, editions have subsequently been brought out by HarperCollins, the Penguin Group, Econo-Clad Books and the University of Arizona Press.

Books

 * Theoharris, Zoe. The problem of cultural integration in Momaday's House made of dawn (Emporia State University: 1979)
 * Scarberry-Garcia, Susan. Landmarks of Healing: A Study of House Made of Dawn (University of New Mexico Press: 1990)

Other

 * "N. Scott Momaday: House Made of Dawn," Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book Two, (Gale Research, 1995)
 * Bennett, John Z. "Review of House Made of Dawn". Western American Literature. Vol. V, No. 1, Spring, 1970, p. 69.
 * Douglas, Christopher. "The flawed design: American imperialism in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian". Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2003 Vol. 45 i1 p. 3.
 * Evers, Lawrence J. "Words and Place: A Reading of House Made of Dawn," Western American Literature. Vol. XI, No. 4, February, 1977, pp. 297-320.
 * Hirsch, Bernard A. "Self-Hatred and Spiritual Corruption in House Made of Dawn." loc. cit. Vol. XVII. No. 4. Winter, 1983. pp. 307-20.
 * Hylton, Marion Willard. "On a Trail of Pollen: Momaday's House Made of Dawn," Critique, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1972, pp. 60-9.
 * Jaskoski, Helen. "House Made of Dawn: Overview," Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd ed., edited by Jim Kamp, (St. James Press: 1994)
 * Kelly, David. Overview of "House Made of Dawn," Novels for Students, Vol. 10 (The Gale Group: 2000)
 * Oleson, Carole. "The Remembered Earth: Momaday's House Made of Dawn". South Dakota Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring, 1973, pp. 59-78.
 * Trimmer, Joseph F. "Native Americans and the American Mix: N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn." The Indiana Social Studies Quarterly 28 (1975).
 * Velie, Alan R. "House Made of Dawn: Nobody's Protest Novel," Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor, (University of Oklahoma Press: 1982) pp. 52-64.
 * Waniek, Marilyn Nelson. "The Power of Language in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn" Minority Voices, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1980, pp. 23-8.