McClinton-Temple, Jennifer & Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature.(Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes)(Brief article)(Book review)

McClinton-Temple, Jennifer & Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. Facts On File. (Library of American Literature). 2007. 466p. bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-8160-5656-9. $75. REF

English teachers McClinton-Temple (King's Coll., Pennsylvania) and Velie (Univ. of Oklahoma; Shakespeare's Repentance Plays: The Search for an Adequate Form), both of whom claim American Indian literature as a specialty, construe the "American Indian" of the title to mean the indigenous peoples inhabiting the lower 48 states, Alaska, and Canada. "Literature," meanwhile, encompasses not only such staples of the oral tradition as songs and tales but also some decidedly …