Madsen Native Authenticity

Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3169-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Native Traces

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madsen, Deborah L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction
Contemporary Discourses on “Indianness”
Deborah L. Madsen

1. Questions about the Question of “Authenticity”: Notes on Mo’olelo Hawai’i and the Struggle for Pono
Paul Lyons

2. Cycles of Selfhood, Cycles of Nationhood: Authenticity, Identity, Community, Sovereignty
David L. Moore

3. “Back when I used to be Indian”: Native American Authenticity and Postcolonial Discourse
Lee Schweninger

4. The X-Blood Files: Whose Story? Whose Indian?
Malea Powell

5. Modernism, Authenticity, and Indian Identity: Frank “Toronto” Prewett (1893–1962)
Joy Porter

6. Transdifference in the Work of Gerald Vizenor
Helmbrecht Breinig

7. Traces of Others in Our Own Other: Monocultural Ideals, Multicultural Resistance
Juan Bruce-Novoa

8. Sacred Community, Sacred Culture: Authenticity and Modernity in Contemporary Canadian Native Writings
Richard J. Lane

In Conversation
Postindian Reflections: Chickens and Piranha, Casinos, and Sovereignty
Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her many books include Understanding Gerald Vizenor; American Exceptionalism; and Allegory in America.