Transatlantic voices: interpretations of Native North American literatures

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Introduction (Elvira Pulitano, Universite de Lausanne) I. Theoretical Crossings 1. 'They Have Stories, Don't They?': Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem (Hartwig Isernhagen, Universitat Basel) 2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature (Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Universite Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III) 3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America (Helmbrecht Breinig, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg) II. From the Early Fiction to Recent Directions: Native-European Transactions 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded (Gaetano Prampolini, Universita di Firenze) 5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel (Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Technische Universitat Dresden) III. Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing: Native American Women Writers in a Transnational Context 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (Deborah L. Madsen, Universite de Geneve) 7. 'keep wide awake in the eyes': Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry (Kathryn Napier Gray, University of Plymouth, UK) 8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia, Norwich) IV. Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys: Native American Re-inventions of Europe 9. Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis's Bearheart (Paul Beekman Taylor, Universite de Geneve) 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, Velikotarnovski Universitet (University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria)) 12. Double Translation: James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk (Ulla Haselstein, Freie Universitat, Berlin) 13. Clown, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train (Simone Pellerin, Universite Paul Valery-Montpellier III) 14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites Of Imagination (A. Robert Lee, Nihon University, Tokyo (formerly of the University of Kent, Canterbury))