Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies

Contributors

Contributors Helmbrecht Breinig is Professor Emeritus at the University of Erlangen -Nürnberg. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American fiction and poetry, intercultural and inter-American topics as well as Native American literature. His recent book publications include Multiculturalism in Contemporary Societies: Perspectives on Difference and Transdifference (coeditor, 2002) and Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Tradition, Modernity, and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature and Culture (2003). Juan Bruce-Novoa is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. His many publications include: Only the Good Times, a novel (1995); RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature (1990); Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos (1982); and Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview (1980). Richard J. Lane is Professor of First Nations Literatures at MalaspinaUniversity College, British Columbia. His major publications include: Jean Baudrillard (2000); Beckett and Philosophy (editor, 2002); Contemporary British Fiction (coeditor, 2003); and The Postcolonial Novel (2006) He has published widely on postcolonial literatures and theory, and currently writes the “Canadian Literature” section for The Year’s Work in English Studies. A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University , Tokyo. Recent publications include: Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2008); Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the 2004 Before Columbus Foundation’s 183 184 Contributors American Book Award; Postindian Conversations (with Gerald Vizenor 2000); Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of AfroAmerica (1998); and the essay collections Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995) and Making America / Making American Literature: Franklin to Cooper (with W. M. Verhoeven 1996). Paul Lyons is Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawai’iManoa . His current research centers on American Pacific Orientalism, about which he has published in boundary 2; ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance; Arizona Quarterly, and Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific. His book American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (2006) deals with the U.S. production of knowledges about the Pacific from early shipboard narratives of encounter through contemporary tourist narratives. Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She works in the field of Postcolonial American studies, with a focus on issues of nation and transnation . Her publications include Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism (1996); American Exceptionalism (1998); Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon (editor, 1999); Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory (editor, 2003); and Understanding Gerald Vizenor (2009). She is coeditor with Gerald Vizenor of the State University of New York Press series Native Traces. David L. Moore is Professor of English at the University of Montana, Missoula. He has published widely on Native American literary history and critical legal theory in relation to tribal sovereignty, American and Native American identity issues, and cultural property. His current book project is entitled Native Knowing: American Identity and Native American Sovereignty. Joy Porter is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is best known for her work on Native American themes and is the author of To Be Indian: The Life of Seneca-Iroquois Arthur Caswell Parker, 1881–1955 (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (coeditor, 2005). Her work can also be found in a variety of journals such as New York History and Presidential Studies Quarterly and in books such as The State of U.S. History (2002). Previously she was Senior Lecturer in American History at Anglia Ruskin University, 185 Contributors Cambridge. Her next book is Native American Freemasonry, the research for which is supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Malea Powell is Associate Professor and Director of Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by nineteenth-century American Indian intellectuals, and on the material cultural rhetorics of American Indian artists. She has published essays in College Composition and Communication , Paradoxa, and several critical essay collections. Powell is the editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures. Malea Powell is a founding member of the National Center for the Study of Great Lakes Native American Culture—an organization dedicated to the preservation of Great Lakes indigenous history, art, and culture—and a participant in the Myaamia Project for the preservation of Miami Language and Culture...