Native authenticity : transnational perspectives on Native American literary studies / edited by Deborah L. Madsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madsen, Deborah L.

Series:

Native traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors.

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America.

Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2010]

Contents:

Contemporary discourses on "Indianness": introduction / Deborah L. Madsen

Questions about the question of "authenticity": notes on Mo'olelo Hawai'i and the struggle for Pono / Paul Lyons

Cycles of selfhood, cycles of nationhood: authenticity, identity, community, sovereignty / David L. Moore

"Back when I used to be Indian": Native American authenticity and postcolonial discourse / Lee Schweninger

The x-blood files: whose story? whose Indian? / Malea Powell

Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) / Joy Porter

Transdifference in the work of Gerald Vizenor / Helmbrecht Breinig

Traces of others in our own other: monocultural ideals, multicultural resistance / Juan Bruce-Novoa

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438431673

1438431678

9781438431680

1438431686

OCLC:

435628805