Sentence examples for native literature from inspiring English sources

"If we lose the Irish language, we lose our native literature," he said, looking morose.

Moreover, the French-speaking elite, engrossed in French literature, neglected the native literature.

Some of these may have stimulated the extraordinary flowering of native literature, especially in Iceland.

Again true to his native literature, he is almost always interested in morals, and in the difficulty of being good.

In the Malay Peninsula, the coming of colonial rule did not at once overwhelm the existing native literature.

Few today, one hopes, would agree with Macaulay that a "single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia".

They wondered what the consequences of this trend would be for native literatures, and why their universities could not validate and run courses themselves.

Native American literature, also called Indian literature or American Indian literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Benjamin, of course, died long before the increased visibility of Native American literature, or the literature of any indigenous people with a living oral tradition, and so it's impossible (if a little entertaining) to imagine what he would make of Sherman Alexie.

The notion that native American literature might exist was not addressed.

"I didn't know until I was 21 of Leslie Silko's Ceremony, which is probably the book of native American literature".