Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xiii elvir a pulitano part 1. theoretical crossings 1 1. “They Have Stories, Don’t They?”: Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem 3 hartwig isernhagen 2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature 24 bernadet te rigal-cellard 3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America 44 helmbrecht breinig part 2. from early fiction to recent directions 63 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown and D’Arcy McNickle’s Surrounded 65 gaetano pr ampolini 5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel 89 brigit te georgi-findlay part 3. tr auma, memory, and narr atives of healing 109 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen’s The Woman Who Owned the Shadows 111 debor ah l. madsen 7. “Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes”: Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose’s Poetry 129 k athryn napier gr ay 8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead 150 rebecca tillet t part 4. compar ative mythologies, tr ansatlantic journeys 171 9. Vizenor’s Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart 173 paul beekman taylor 10. “June Walked over It like Water and Came Home”: Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Tracks 188 mark shackleton 11. Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan’s Power 206 yonk a kr asteva 12. Double Translation: James Welch’s Heartsong of Charging Elk 225 ulla haselstein 13. Clowns, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens’s I Hear the Train 249 simone pellerin 14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination 268 a. robert lee List of Contributors 289 Index 295 ...