Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations

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Table of Contents: Acknowledgments IntroductionGretchen M. Bataille As If an Were Really an Indian: Native American Voices and Postcolonial TheoryLouis Owens Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Identity and Cultural AppropriationKathryn Shanley Return of the Buffalo: Cultural Representation as Cultural PropertyDavid L. Moore Representation and Cultural Sovereignty: Some Case StudiesDavid Murray Tricksters of the Trade: Remagining the Filmic Image of Native AmericansJohn Purdy Telling Stories for Readers: Interplay of Orality and Literacy in Clara Pearson's Nehalem Tillamook TalesJarold Ramsey Cooperation and Resistance: Native American Collaborative Personal NarrativeKathleen M. Sands Western Literary Models and Their Native American Revisiting: Hybrid Aesthetics of Owens's Sharpest SightBernadette Rigal-Cellard Identity and Exchange: Representation of The Indian in the Federal Writers Project and in Contemporary Native American LiteratureHartwig Isernhagen Reversing the Gaze: Early Native American Images of Europeans and Euro-AmericansA. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Metacritical Frames of Reference in Studying American Literature: An AfterwordKathryn Shanley Contributors Bibliography Index