I like your framing of Black Elk Speaks (and in a roundabout way Margery Kempe) as modernist. I also liked Joe Jackson's biography of Black Elk, which I read a couple years ago.
Thanks, Danny. In truth I was struggling to get a handle on Black Elk Speaks and shoehorning it into modernism helped.
I can't take credit for thinking of Margery Kempe as modernist. It comes from Robert Gluck's "Margery Kempe" or whoever wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of it.
I like your framing of Black Elk Speaks (and in a roundabout way Margery Kempe) as modernist. I also liked Joe Jackson's biography of Black Elk, which I read a couple years ago.
Thanks, Danny. In truth I was struggling to get a handle on Black Elk Speaks and shoehorning it into modernism helped.
I can't take credit for thinking of Margery Kempe as modernist. It comes from Robert Gluck's "Margery Kempe" or whoever wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of it.