Research Catalog

Title

Mirror writing : (re-)constructions of Native American identity / edited by Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss.

Publication

Glienicke/Berlin : Galda + Wilch, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Claviez, Thomas.
• Moss, Maria.

Description

vii, 290 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Ethnic identity
• Indians of North America > Public opinion
• Indian literature > North America > History and criticism
• American literature > History and criticism
• Public opinion > North America
• Public opinion > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Lakota sun dance between 1883 and 1997 : the outlawing and revival of a cultural symbol / Peter Bolz -- The messenger feast : myth and cultural identity / Karin Berning -- Confessions of the last Hopi fieldworker / Hans-Ulrich Sanner -- "White Indians" and "red Euro-Americans" : crossing cultural boundaries in colonial North America / Marin Trenk -- Mission impossible? Native Americans and Christianity / Christian F. Feest --
• First nation postmodern cultures : (re)constructing the (de)constructed and celebrating the changes / Dominique Legros -- The social life of texts : keeping traditions "oral" in a time of textual studies / Julie Cruikshank -- Narrating environmental ethics : N. Scott Momaday and Walter Benjamin / Thomas Claviez -- The Achilles' heel of absolute power : narrative survival strategies in Native American literature / Maria Moss -- Nationalism, indigenism, cosmopolitanism : three critical positions on Native American literatures / Arnold Krupat --
• Cultural sovereignty and the hauntology of American identity / David Murray -- Reflecting cultural identity in modern American Indian photography / Mick Gidley.

ISBN

3931397254

LCCN

2001375420 ^

OCLC

46430463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library