is the second book published by Osage writer John Joseph Mathews. First published in 1934,
Sundown, his only work of fiction, follows
Wah’Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man’sRoad(1932). Subsequent books include:
Talking to the Moon(1945),
Life and Death of anOilman: The Career of E.W. Marland(1951) and
The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters(1961). Most of Mathews’ writing consists of memoir, cultural and historical observation and reflection, as well as biography.
A seminal, but sometimes overlooked work, Sundown may be understood as a “late-modernist novel” that sets the “paradigm” for subsequent novelists of the “Native American Renaissance” – with its more acclaimed authors, such as N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko – who, like Mathews,
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Citation: Hada, Ken. "Sundown". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40574, accessed 25 April 2024.]
