Transatlantic Voices

Contents

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 Montaigne<EN>Bordeaux 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-Valéry<EN>Montpellier III

14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination 

A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo

List of Contributors  

Index