Featuring articles by eminent as well as emerging scholars in Native North American Studies, this volume offers current perspectives on some of the field's most prevalent issues, including global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, issues of social justice, and the intersections between law and literature.
Featuring articles by eminent as well as emerging scholars in Native North American Studies, this volume offers current perspectives on some of the field's most prevalent issues, including global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, issues of social justice, and the intersections between law and literature.
Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Vienna. Karsten Fitz is Professor of American Studies/Culture and Media Studies at the University of Passau. Sabine N. Meyer is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Institute for British and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück.
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Introduction Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz and Sabine N. Meyer Part I: Native Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical Trajectories and Critical Approaches 1. Literary Transmotion: Survivance and Totemic Motion in Native American Indian Art and Literature Gerald Vizenor 2. Native Dramatic Theory in a Bird House Diane Glancy 3. First Nations Writing: A Personal History Tomson Highway Part II: Native Stories and Storiers 4. Reading Through Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American Literary Discourse Billy J. Stratton 5. Evil and Sacrifice in Native North American Literature: Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich Helmbrecht Breinig 6. Games Indians Play: Reflections on Sports as Cultural Practice and Historical Template in Contemporary Native American Literature and Film Hans Bak Part III: Land, Law, and Indigenous Ecologies 7. Re-scripting Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community Chadwick Allen 8. In the Shadow of the Marshall Court: Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Conceptualizations of the Law Sabine N. Meyer 9. A "Whale" of a Problem: Indigenous Tradition vs. Ecological Taboo Maria Moss Part IV: History and Transnationalism 10. Globalizing Indigenous Histories: Comparison, Connectedness, and New Contexts for Native American History Sami Lakomäki 11. Catherine Tekakwitha: The Construction of a Saint Michael Draxlbauer 12. Memory, Community, and Historicity in Joseph Bruchac's The Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 Hsinya Huang 13. "Indianthusiasts" and "Mythbusters": (De-)Constructing Transatlantic Others Hartmut Lutz
Introduction Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz and Sabine N. Meyer Part I: Native Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical Trajectories and Critical Approaches 1. Literary Transmotion: Survivance and Totemic Motion in Native American Indian Art and Literature Gerald Vizenor 2. Native Dramatic Theory in a Bird House Diane Glancy 3. First Nations Writing: A Personal History Tomson Highway Part II: Native Stories and Storiers 4. Reading Through Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American Literary Discourse Billy J. Stratton 5. Evil and Sacrifice in Native North American Literature: Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich Helmbrecht Breinig 6. Games Indians Play: Reflections on Sports as Cultural Practice and Historical Template in Contemporary Native American Literature and Film Hans Bak Part III: Land, Law, and Indigenous Ecologies 7. Re-scripting Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community Chadwick Allen 8. In the Shadow of the Marshall Court: Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Conceptualizations of the Law Sabine N. Meyer 9. A "Whale" of a Problem: Indigenous Tradition vs. Ecological Taboo Maria Moss Part IV: History and Transnationalism 10. Globalizing Indigenous Histories: Comparison, Connectedness, and New Contexts for Native American History Sami Lakomäki 11. Catherine Tekakwitha: The Construction of a Saint Michael Draxlbauer 12. Memory, Community, and Historicity in Joseph Bruchac's The Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 Hsinya Huang 13. "Indianthusiasts" and "Mythbusters": (De-)Constructing Transatlantic Others Hartmut Lutz
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