Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-285) and index.
Contents
Other destinies, other plots : an introduction to Indian novels -- Origin mists : John Rollin Ridge's masquerade and Mourning Dove's mixedbloods -- Maps of the mind : John Joseph Mathews and D'Arcy McNickle -- Acts of imagination : the novels of N. Scott Momaday -- Earthboy's return : James Welch's acts of recovery -- "The very essence of our lives" : Leslie Silko's webs of identity -- Erdrich and Dorris's mixedbloods and multiple narratives -- Ecstatic strategies : Gerald Vizenor's trickster narratives.