Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.
Contents
As if an Indian were really an Indian : Native American voices and postcolonial theory / Louis Owens -- Indians America loves to love and read : American Indian identity and cultural appropriation / Kathryn Shanley -- Return of the buffalo : cultural representation as cultural property / David L. Moore -- Representation and cultural sovereignty : some case studies / David Murray -- Tricksters of the trade : "remagining" the filmic image of Native Americans / John Purdy -- Telling stories for readers : the interplay of orality and literacy in Clara Pearson's Nehalem Tillamook tales / Jarold Ramsey -- Cooperation and resistance : Native American collaborative personal narrative / Kathleen M. Sands -- Western literary models and their Native American revisiting : the hybrid aesthetics of Owens's The sharpest sight / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Identity and exchange : the representation of "The Indian" in the Federal Writers Project and in contemporary Native American literature / Hartwig Isernhagen -- Reversing the gaze : early Native American images of Europeans and Euro-Americans / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff -- Metacritical frames of reference in studying American Indian literature : an afterword / Kathryn Shanley.
