Native authenticity
Subtitle: transnational perspectives on Native American literary studies
By: [edited by] Deborah L. Madsen.
Contributors: Madsen, Deborah L.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438431673; 9781438431680
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians in literature; Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity; Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary discourses on "Indianness": introduction / Deborah L. Madsen; title: Questions about the question of "authenticity": notes on Moolelo Hawaii and the struggle for Pono / Paul Lyons; title: Cycles of selfhood, cycles of nationhood: authenticity, identity, community, sovereignty / David L. Moore; title: "Back when I used to be Indian": Native American authenticity and postcolonial discourse / Lee Schweninger; title: The x-blood files: whose story? whose Indian? / Malea Powell; title: Modernism, authenticity and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) / Joy Porter; title: Transdifference in the work of Gerald Vizenor / Helmbrecht Breinig; title: Traces of others in our own other, monocultural ideals, multicultural resistance / Juan Bruce-Novoa; title: Sacred community, sacred culture: authenticity and modernity in Canadian First Nations writing / Richard J. Lane; title: In conversation: postindian reflections: chickens and piranha, casinos, and sovereignty / Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee.