LEADER 05173nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910953562503321 005 20240417032336.0 010 $a9781438431697 010 $a1438431694 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046838 035 $a(OCoLC)794699133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10573979 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605995 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426300 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605995 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581369 035 $a(PQKB)10881704 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407118 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407118 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10573979 035 $a(DE-B1597)682338 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438431697 035 $a(Perlego)2674761 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046838 100 $a20090831d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNative authenticity $etransnational perspectives on Native American literary studies /$fedited by Deborah L. Madsen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aNative traces 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438431673 311 08$a1438431678 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContemporary discourses on "Indianness": introduction / Deborah L. Madsen -- Questions about the question of "authenticity": notes on Moolelo Hawaii and the struggle for Pono / Paul Lyons -- Cycles of selfhood, cycles of nationhood: authenticity, identity, community, sovereignty / David L. Moore -- "Back when I used to be Indian": Native American authenticity and postcolonial discourse / Lee Schweninger -- The x-blood files: whose story? whose Indian? / Malea Powell -- Modernism, authenticity and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) / Joy Porter -- Transdifference in the work of Gerald Vizenor / Helmbrecht Breinig -- Traces of others in our own other, monocultural ideals, multicultural resistance / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Sacred community, sacred culture: authenticity and modernity in Canadian First Nations writing / Richard J. Lane -- In conversation: postindian reflections: chickens and piranha, casinos, and sovereignty / Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. 330 $aAn indispensable resource for readers, students, and scholars of Native literatures in North America, Native Authenticity offers a clear, comprehensive, and systematic look at the diversity of critical approaches to the idea of "Indian-ness." Some of the foremost transatlantic scholars of Native Studies in North America and Europe share their insights on this highly-charged aspect of the contemporary theoretical field of Native Studies. The issue of "authenticity" or "Indian-ness" generates a controversial debate in studies of indigenous American literatures. The articulation of Native identity through the prism of Euro-American attempts to confine "Indian" groups to essentialized spaces is resisted by some Native writers, while others recognize a need for essentialist categories as a key strategy in the struggle for social justice and a perpetually renewed sense of Native sovereignty. Pressure from neo-colonial essentializing practices is in conflict with a politics of cultural sovereignty, which demands a notion of "Indian" essence or "authenticity" as a foundation for community values, heritage, and social justice. Contributors participate in a scholarly and pedagogical search for an intellectual paradigm for Native literary studies that is apart from, yet cognizant with, powerful colonial legacies. The complex politics of Polynesian authenticity versus Native indigeneity is engaged by Native Hawaiian writers as they negotiate conflicting demands upon personal and tribal identities. Related to this questioning is the authenticity debate in Canadian First Nations writing, where the claim to authenticity rests upon a claim to historical precedence; also related is the highly contentious claim by some Chicano/a writers to an indigenous heritage as a claim to authority and "American" authenticity. Essays in this volume are focused upon the diverse and sophisticated responses of Native writers and scholars, while offering comparative perspectives on Native Hawaiian, Chicano, and Canadian literatures. 410 0$aNative traces. 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aIndians of North America$xEthnic identity 606 $aAuthenticity (Philosophy) in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aAuthenticity (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a810.9/897 701 $aMadsen$b Deborah L$0550192 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953562503321 996 $aNative authenticity$94368336 997 $aUNINA