Description
Book SynopsisA collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - the essays chart the course of recent theories of Native literature, delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies, and probe specific themes of trauma and memory.
Trade Review"Transatlantic Voices represents some of the most recent critical studies of contemporary Native North American literature by fourteen European scholars... The anthology will be a useful resource for anyone interested in interdisciplinary crossings in postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, and narrative ethics."-Laura Castor, Great Plains Quarterly -- Laura Castor Great Plains Quarterly
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Elvira Pulitano, California Polytechnic State University
Part 1. Theoretical Crossings
1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem
Hartwig Isernhagen, Universität Basel
2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature
Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université Michel de MontaigneBordeaux 3
3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America
Helmbrecht Breinig, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Part 2. From Early Fiction to Recent Directions
4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded
Gaetano Prampolini, Università di Firenze
5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel
Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Technische Universität Dresden
Part 3. Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing
6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
Deborah L. Madsen, Université de Genève
7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry
Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth
8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia
Part 4. Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys
9. Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart
Paul Beekman Taylor, Université de Genève
10. "June Walked over It like Water and Came Home": Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks
Mark Shackleton, University of Helsinki
11. Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power
Yonka Krasteva, University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
12. Double Translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk
Ulla Haselstein, Freie Universität Berlin
13. Clown, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train
Simone Pellerin, Université Paul-ValéryMontpellier III
14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination
A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo
List of Contributors
Index
