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In 1969, the same year that N. Scott Momaday began his tenure as associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for House Made of Dawn (1968), published his aut...

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When N. Scott Momaday received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), the literary community recognized the arrival of a major contemporary Native American writer; the event marked the beginning of what Kennet...

House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday - 1968 Introduction A powerful look at the alienation one Native American experiences, House Made of Dawn (1968) is regarded as the beginning of the Native American renaissance in literature. The first novel by...

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Tsoai-talee) Of Kiowa, Cherokee, and Anglo descent, N. Scott Momaday (whose Kiowan name is Tsoai-talee, which means "Rock Tree Boy") was born in Oklahoma and raised in New Mexico. He lived on the Jemez Reservation...

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...

In N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, temporal disjunctions are marked by sudden shifts in register toward hegemonic discursive practices. Momaday uses registermixing as the vehicle with which to create a dynamic stylistic interplay that represents a clash of Native and Anglo-American...

The first colonists saw in America an opportunity to regenerate their fortunes, their spirits, and the power of their church and nation; but the means to that regeneration ultimately became the means of violence, and the myth of regeneration through violence became the...

In the following essay, Schweninger examines House Made of Dawn on a number of levels, assessing the plot, characters, evolution of the work, the novel's historical significance, and how the work has been studied since its publication.

In the following excerpt, Schubnell discusses Abel's search for belonging and identity in House Made of Dawn.

An American critic and educator, Evers has authored several books on Native American songs and has served as president of the Association for Study of American Indian Literatures. In the essay below, he examines Momaday's focus on language, landscape, and Native American rituals and narratives in House Made of Dawn.