Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies

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Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Contemporary Discourses on “Indianness” Deborah L. Madsen Chapter 1 Questions about the Question of “Authenticity”: Notes on Mo’olelo Hawai’i and the Struggle for Pono 19 Paul Lyons Chapter 2 Cycles of Selfhood, Cycles of Nationhood: Authenticity, Identity, Community, Sovereignty 39 David L. Moore Chapter 3 “Back when I used to be Indian”: Native American Authenticity and Postcolonial Discourse 69 Lee Schweninger Chapter 4 The X-Blood Files: Whose Story? Whose Indian? 87 Malea Powell Chapter 5 Modernism, Authenticity, and Indian Identity: Frank “Toronto” Prewett (1893–1962) 103 Joy Porter Chapter 6 Transdifference in the Work of Gerald Vizenor 123 Helmbrecht Breinig Chapter 7 Traces of Others in Our Own Other: Monocultural Ideals, Multicultural Resistance 133 Juan Bruce-Novoa Chapter 8 Sacred Community, Sacred Culture: Authenticity and Modernity in Contemporary Canadian Native Writings 151 Richard J. Lane In Conversation Postindian Reflections: Chickens and Piranha, Casinos, and Sovereignty 167 Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee Contributors 183 Index 187 vi Contents ...