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Native Speaker explores the themes of language, identity, and assimilation as an Asian-American, and reflects elements of literary fiction and spy thrillers. [1] The novel won the 1996 PEN/Hemingway award for Best First Novel and is the first novel by a Korean-American author to be published by a major American company, Riverhead Books .
The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker is a collection of memoirs and essays by American writer Eric Liu published in 1998. One of his arguments criticizes the unified Asian American movement with uniform interests. The book was well received by major reviewers, including The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine.
Marie Desma Wilcox (November 24, 1933 – September 25, 2021) [1] [2] [3] was a Native American who was the last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, which is a Yokutsan indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. [2] [4] She worked for more than 20 years on a dictionary of the language. [5]
Lee's first novel, Native Speaker (1995), won numerous awards including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. [1] Centered on a Korean-American industrial spy, the novel explores themes of alienation and betrayal as experienced by immigrants and first-generation citizens, in their struggle to assimilate in American life. [2]
Truman Washington Dailey, (October 19, 1898 – December 16, 1996) also known as Mashi Manyi ("Soaring High") and Sunge Hka ("White Horse"), was the last native speaker of the Otoe-Missouria dialect of Chiwere (Baxoje-Jiwere-Nyut'achi), a Native American language. He was a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians.
Seneca-Cayuga filmmaker Erica Tremblay discusses how learning Cayuga inspired her feature debut starring Lily Gladstone. She has optimism for Hollywood's future.
The last known native speaker, Archie Thompson, died in 2013. [1] As of 2012, Yurok language classes were taught to high school students, and other revitalization efforts were expected to increase the population of speakers. [3] The standard reference on the Yurok language grammar is by R. H. Robins (1958). [4]
The term has evolved since its first recorded use in American writer Henry David Thoreau’s book "Walden" which reports his experiences of living a simple lifestyle in the natural world, Oxford ...