Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies

Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Vienna.Karsten Fitz is Professor of American Studies/Culture and Media Studies at the University of Passau.Sabine N. Meyer is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Institute for British and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück.

"Written by indigenous and non-indigenous scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia, these diverse essays examine aspects of contemporary indigenous studies...This interesting collection highlights the broad range of indigenous studies and the transnational scholarship that has proliferated in recent decades. Summing Up: Recommended."— J. A. Reyhner, Northern Arizona University, CHOICE Reviews"The book defines and questions theoretical ideas drawn from Indigenous epistemologies as well as Western critical theory, using these with multiple examples of texts and artworks to demonstrate the vitalityof Indigenous survivance in the face of overwhelming odds. The four parts make a coherent whole, a web of ideas that intersect and speak to each other throughout the volume. Native North America in (Trans)motion merits reading and re-reading for its sophisticated insights not only into Native American studies, but also into how globalized, transnational Indigenous Studies can help to shape and lead the humanities in the future. This work will be invaluable to scholars, artists and students in disciplines far beyond the arbitrary borders that have ghettoized Indigenous Studies in the past." - David O’Donnell, Victoria University of Wellington, Recherche littéraire/Literary Research (vol. 32, summer 2016)

• Introduction Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz and Sabine N. Meyer Part I: Native Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical Trajectories and Critical Approaches 1. Literary Transmotion: Survivance and Totemic Motion in Native American Indian Art and Literature Gerald Vizenor 2. Native Dramatic Theory in a Bird House Diane Glancy 3. First Nations Writing: A Personal History Tomson Highway Part II: Native Stories and Storiers 4. Reading Through Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American Literary Discourse Billy J. Stratton 5. Evil and Sacrifice in Native North American Literature: Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich Helmbrecht Breinig 6. Games Indians Play: Reflections on Sports as Cultural Practice and Historical Template in Contemporary Native American Literature and Film Hans Bak Part III: Land, Law, and Indigenous Ecologies 7. Re-scripting Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community Chadwick Allen 8. In the Shadow of the Marshall Court: Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Conceptualizations of the Law Sabine N. Meyer 9. A "Whale" of a Problem: Indigenous Tradition vs. Ecological Taboo Maria Moss Part IV: History and Transnationalism 10. Globalizing Indigenous Histories: Comparison, Connectedness, and New Contexts for Native American History Sami Lakomäki 11. Catherine Tekakwitha: The Construction of a Saint Michael Draxlbauer 12. Memory, Community, and Historicity in Joseph Bruchac’s The Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 Hsinya Huang 13. "Indianthusiasts" and "Mythbusters": (De-)Constructing Transatlantic Others Hartmut Lutz