Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University. He is the author of The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan. Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies & Humane Letters at Cornell University. He has also been professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught as well at Southern Methodist University and Georgetown University. A truly interdisciplinary scholar, he is the author of The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan" (Oxford, 1991 - selected as an outstanding academic book by Choice in 1991) and many essays on topics in American and Native American literature. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University. Cheyfitz has received grants from numerous foundations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities.

All of the essays in this book provide essential updates on contemporary American Indian writing. -- Norma C. Wilson South Dakota History

• Editor's Introduction Part I The (Post)colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law, by Eric Cheyfitz Part II 1. American Indian Fiction and Anticolonial Resistance, by Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott 2. Cannons and Canonization: American Indian Poetries Through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization, by Kimberly M. Blaeser 3. American Indian Drama and the Politics of Performance, by Shari Huhndorf 4. Sovereignty and the Struggle for Representation in American Indian Nonfiction, by David Murray 5. Imagining Self and Community in American Indian Autobiography, by Kendall Johnson Index