Transatlantic Voices Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction   Elvira Pulitano     xiii
Theoretical Crossings     1
"They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem   Hartwig Isernhagen     3
Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature   Bernadette Rigal-Cellard     24
Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America   Helmbrecht Breinig     44
From Early Fiction to Recent Directions     63
American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded   Gaetano Prampolini     65
Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel   Brigitte Georgi-Findlay     89
Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing     109
Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows   Deborah L. Madsen     111
"Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry   Kathryn Napier Gray     129
Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead   Rebecca Tillett     150
Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys     171
Vizenor's Trickster Theft:Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart   Paul Beekman Taylor     173
"June Walked over It like Water and Came Home": Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks   Mark Shackleton     188
Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power   Yonka Krasteva     206
Double Translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk   Ulla Haselstein     225
Clowns, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train   Simone Pellerin     249
Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination   A. Robert Lee     268
List of Contributors     289
Index     295