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ネイティヴ・アメリカン文学 - 英語論文集成 -(全4巻)
Native American Writing
Edited & Introduced by A. Robert Lee, Professor, Nihon University (日本大学文理学部教授) 

2011年4月刊行 
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● ISBN: 978-4-86166-137-2


 

●ネイティヴ・アメリカン文学に関するこの30年間の研究論文・評論など約85文献を収録する、初の包括的学術文献集成。
●アメリカ・カナダ文学、多民族主義研究に必携のレファレンス。
●編者による詳細な解説・書誌・年表付き。

豊かな口承文学の伝統をもっていたアメリカ先住民族は、ヨーロッパ人の移住が始まると、彼らから文字を学び、同時に小説、詩、劇や自伝など様々な創作様式も会得します。こうして、先住民族の間で語り継がれていた歴史、伝承、民話、神話やそれらのもつ精神は、近代的文学に姿を変え数多くのすぐれた文学作品を生むようになってゆきます。その後、N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Luci Tapahonso, Tom King, Beth Brant など先住民族の代表的作家たちは、自らを主体的に描くことにより文学的評価を獲得し、民族のアイデンティティー、政治的主権や土地返還請求、「混血」や過去の記憶、またVizenorが呼ぶ 'Survivance’ (残存)といった特有の問題を作品のなかで扱い、今日のネイティヴ・アメリカ文学の開花期を迎えることになります。

このようなネイティヴ・アメリカン文学の隆盛とともに、この文学に関する学術研究も大きな広がりを見せていますが、今回編集される本書は、この30年間に出版された文学誌、学術研究誌、評論誌や新聞、論文集のなかから、今後の研究・教育のために特に重要な文献80点強を選び、歴史・伝承、自伝、小説、詩、演劇、カナダ先住民族の文学などカテゴリー別に編集し4巻に収録するものです。この分野のレファレンスとして、いままでに類のない規模で今日研究されている諸相を網羅しています。

編者による包括的な書き下ろし解説とともに、文学年表、詳細な書誌や民族グループの表など価値の高い補助資料も収録、ネイティヴ・アメリカン文学だけでなく、アメリカ・カナダ文学、多文化主義などの研究・教育には必携の文献集です。

●推薦文●
Native American Writing by A. Robert Lee presents the creative, critical, and historical essence of contemporary continental literature, a generous, learned tour de force, and the very first comprehensive tour d'horizon of the literature of Native American Indians.
Gerald Vizenor

This is an outstanding collection of examples and discussions of Indigenous American literature in all its forms, from poetry to prose, life-writing to critical theory, Canada to Mexico and all points in between. Few scholars, if any, can match the breadth and depth of A. Robert Lee’s understanding of the Native American literary canon: the introductory essay on its own is a map that guides newcomers surefootedly through an often complex field. The selections include an impressive number of the most important essays from the past 40 years of critical study in this area, and cover every major Native American and First Nations writer. This volume will be an essential component of any collection of Indigenous literary expression for a long time to come.
James Mackay, European University Cyprus

メルヴィル研究やマイノリティー 文学研究でも知られている編者A. Robert Lee。本全集の博覧強記な編集ぶりは、先住民が経てきた地獄図のごとき歴史や、白人による一方的表象に抗せんがための先住民による表現を 細大漏らさず伝えようという気概に満ちている。解説文の雄弁も必読である。なるほど本全集は高価だが、これから腰を据えて先住民文学研究に向かおうという方にも、いろいろ読んできたが全体像を把握したいという方にも最高の手引きとなってくれよう。木だけではなく森を見せ、新しい時代の到来を感じさせてくれる。
大島由起子(福岡大学)

本評論集四巻はアメリカ先住民文学研究者として顕著な英国人研究者A.ロバート・リー氏による7年がけの大作であり、史上初のアメリカ先住民文学研究の過去30年間の総体を顕す野心的な試みである。Multicultural American Literature (2004年度American Book Award受賞・2010年9月翻訳版出版予定)の著者であり、同じく四巻に亘るハーマン・メルヴィル総括評論集の編集者であるリー氏の解説文は知識豊富であるだけでなく、その洞察力には感服する。アメリカ文化研究においても最近関心を集めている先住民文学研究の画期的な集大成として、アメリカ文学者・読者全般に必読となろう。
三浦笙子(東京海洋大学名誉教授)

◆収録文献明細(予定:編集上の都合での変更の可能性がございます。)◆

VOLUME I

Introduction

Native Literary Statements

1. N. SCOTT MOMADAY, “Man Made of Words,” American Indian Literature, (ed.), Abraham Chapman, New York: New American Library, 1975.
2. SIMON ORTIZ, ‘Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism,” ME-LUS, 8: ii, Summer 1981.
3. LESLIE MARMON SILKO, “Language and Literature from A Pueblo Indian Point of View,” Eng-lish Literature: Opening The Canon, eds. Leslie Fiedler, Houston Baker, Baltimore” Johns Hopkins Press, 1981. Revised version, Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing, (ed.), Philomena Mariani, Seattle: New Press, 1991.
4. LOUISE ERDRICH, “Where I Ought to Be: A Writer’s Sense of Place,” New York Times Book Re-view, 90, 28 July 1985.
5. JOY HARJO, “Ordinary Spirit,” I Tell You Now: Autobigraphical Essays by Native American Writ-ers, eds. Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1987.
6. GERALD VIZENOR, “Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance,” World Literature Today, 66: ii, 1992.
7. ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN, “The American Indian Fiction Writer: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, The Third World, and First Nation Sovereignty,” Wicazo Sa Review, IX: ii, 1993.
8. JACK D. FORBES, “Intellectual Self-Determination and Sovereignty: Implications for Native Studies and Native Intellectuals,” Wicazo Sa Review, 24:ii, 1999.

Overviews

9. WILLIAM BEVIS, ‘Native American Novels: Homing In’. Recovering the Word: Essays in Native American Literature, (eds.), Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
10. DANIEL F. LITTLEFIELD, ‘American Indians, American Scholars and the American Literary Ca-non’, American Studies, 33, 1992.
11. ARNOLD KRUPAT, ‘Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature’, The Turn To The Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
12. JOE LOCKARD, ‘The Universal Hiawatha’, American Indian Quarterly, 24: i, 2000.
13. SAM CORRIGAN, ‘One People, Two Paths: Native Literature in the USA and Canada’, 2002 Se-quoyah Research Center Symposium, 2003.

Theory Perspectives

14. ARNOLD KRUPAT, ‘Local, National, Cosmopolitan Literature’, The Voice in The Margin: Native American Literature and The Canon, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
15. CRAIG S. WOMACK, ‘Reading the Oral Tradition for Nationalist Themes: Beyond Ethnography’, Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
16. ELVIRA PULITANO, ‘Towards a Native American Critical Theory’, Revised from Towards a Na-tive American Critical Theory, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Oral Traditions and Legacies

17. DELL HYMES, ‘Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative’, New Literary History, 8: iii, 1977.
18. KIMBERLY M. BLAESER, ‘Trickster: A Compendium’, Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds, (eds.), Mark A., Lindquist and Martin Zanger, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

VOLUME II

Selected Autobiographical Studies

19. WILLIAM F. SMITH, ‘American Indian Autobiographies’, American Indian Quarterly, 2: iii, 1975.
20. DAVID MURRAY, ‘From Speech to Text: The Making of American Indian Autobiographies’, American Literary Landscapes: The Fiction and The Fact, (eds.), Ian F. A. Bell and D. K. Adams, Lon-don and New Jersey: Vision Press, 1988.

[William Apess, George Copway, Sarah Winnemucca]
21. A. LAVONNE BROWN RUOFF, ‘Three Nineteenth-Century American Indian Autobiographers: William Apes, George Copway, and Sarah Winnemucca’, New American Literary History, (eds.), A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., New York: MLA, 1990.

[Andrew Blackbird]
22. HELEN JASKOSKI, ‘Andrew Blackbird’s Smallpox Story’, Native American Perspectives on Lite-rature and History, (ed.), Alan R.Velie, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

[George Copway]
23. DONALD B. SMITH, ‘The Life of George Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh’, Journal of Canadian Studies, 23, iii, 1988.

[Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)]
24. MALEA POWELL, ‘Imagining a New Indian: Listening To The Rhetoric of Survivance in Charles Eastman’s From Deep Woods to Civilization, Paradoxa 5, ed. Kathryn W. Stanley, 2001.

[Samson Occom]
25. BERND PEYER, ‘Samson Occom; Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the 18th Century’, American Indian Quarterly, 6, 1982.

[Luther Standing Bear]
26. RUTH J. HEFLIN, ‘ “As Long As You Think I Can’t, I Will Show You That I Can”, “I Remain Alive”: The Sioux Literary Renaissance, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Modern Native Autobiographies

[N. Scott Momaday]
27. MATTHIAS SCHUBNELL, ‘Myths to Live By: The Names: A Memoir’, Matthias Schubnell, N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural and Literary Background, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

[Leslie Marmon Silko]
28. KENNETH LINCOLN, ‘Grandmother Storyteller: Leslie Silko’, Native American Renaissance, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

[Gerald Vizenor]
29. RICHARD HUTSON, ‘ “A Crossblood at the Scratch Line” Interior Landscapes’, Loosening The Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor, (ed.), A. Robert Lee, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000.

Early Modern Native American Writing

[S. Alice Callahan/Pauline Johnson]
30. A. LAVONNE BROWN RUOFF, ‘Justice for Indians and Women: The Protest Fiction of Alice Callahan and Pauline Johnson’, World Literature Today, 66: ii, 1992.

[John Joseph Matthews]
31. SUSAN KALTER, ‘John Joseph Mathews’ Reverse Ethnography: The Literary Dimensions of Wah’Kon-Tah’, SAIL 14: i, 2002.

[D’Arcy McNickle]
32. JAMES RUPPERT, ‘Textual Perspectives and the Reader in The Surrounded’, Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, (ed.), Gerald Vizenor, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

[Mourning Dove]
33. MARGARET A. LUKENS, ‘Mourning Dove and Mixed Blood: Cultural and Historical Pressures on Aesthetic Choice and Authorial Identity’, American Indian Quarterly, 21, 1997.

[Alexander Posey]
34. DANIEL F. LITTLEFIELD, ‘Evolution of Alex Posey’s Fus Fixico Persona’, SAIL 4, 1992.

[John Rollin Ridge]
35. JOHN LOWE, ‘ “I AM JOAQUIN!”: Space and Freedom in Yellow Bird’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, The Celebrated California Bandit’, (ed.), Helen Jaskoski, Native American Writing: New Critical Essays, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

[Frank Waters]
36. JACK L. DAVIS AND JUNE H: DAVIS, ‘Frank Waters and The Native American Consciousness’ Western American Literature, 9: i, 1974.

[Sarah Winnemucca]
37. ANDREW S. McCLURE, ‘Sarah Winnemucca: [Post]Indian Princess and Voice of the Paiutes’, MELUS 24: ii, 1999.

[Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)]
38. DOROTHEA M. SUSAG, ‘Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin): A Power(full) Literary Voice’, SAIL 5: iv, 1993.

VOLUME III

Modern Native American Fiction

[Sherman Alexie]
30. JAMES H. COX, ‘Muting White Noise: The Subversion of Popular Culture Narratives of Conquest in Sherman Alexie’s Work’, SAIL 9: iv, 1997.

[Paula Gunn Allen]
40. ANALOUISE KEATING, ‘Back to the Mother? Paula Gunn Allen’s Origin Myths’, Women Read-ing Women: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

[Joseph Bruchac, Robert J. Conley]
41. RON WELBURN, ‘The Indigenous Fiction of Joseph Bruchac and Robert J. Conley, Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literature, Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

[A.A. Carr]
42. JESSE PETERS, ‘A Multitude of Routes, Roads and Paths: Transcultural Healing in A.A. Carr’s Eye Killers, Paradoxa, 15, (ed.), Kathryn W. Shanley, 2001.

[Elizabeth Cook-Lynn]
43. ROZELLE PAGE, ‘The Teller and The Tale: History and Oral Tradition in Elizabeth Cook-Lynn’s Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy’, AIQ, 25: ii, 2001.

[Michael Dorris]
44. GORDON SLETHAUG, ‘Multivocal Narration and Cultural Negotiation: Dorris’s A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and Cloud Chamber’, SAIL 2: i, 1999.

[Louise Erdrich]
45. PETER G. BEIDLER AND GAY BARTON, ‘Geography, Genealogy, and Chronology’, A Reader’s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

[Diane Glancy]
46. AMY J. ELIAS, ‘Fragments That Rune Up the Shores: Pushing the Bear, Coyote Aesthetics, and Recovered History’, Modern Fiction Studies 45: i, 1999.

[Linda Hogan]
47 CATHERINE RAINWATER, ‘Intertextual Twins and Their Relations: Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit and Solar Storms,’ Modern Fiction Studies, 45: i, 1999.

[N. Scott Momaday]
48. JAMES RUPPERT, ‘Intricate Patterns of the Universe: House Made of Dawn’, Mediation in Con-temporary Native Fiction, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

[Simon Ortiz, Carter Revard]
49. JANE HALADAY, ‘Solemn Laughter: Humor as Subversion and Resistance in the Literature of Si-mon Ortiz and Carter Revard’, Paradoxa 15. (ed.), Kathryn W. Shanley, 2001.

[Louis Owens]
50. DAVID BRANDE, ‘Not the Call of the Wild: Louis Owens’s Wolfsong and Mixblood Messages’, AIQ, 24: ii, 2000.

[Greg Sarris]
51. MICHELLE BURNHAM, ‘Pomo Basketweaving, Poison, and the Politics of Restoration in Greg Sarris’s Grand Avenue’, SAIL 14:iv, 2002.

[Leslie Marmon Silko]
52. DENISE K. CUMMINGS, ‘ “Settling History”: Understanding Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Almanac of The Dead, and Garden in the Dunes, SAIL, 12: iv, 2000.

[Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas King]
53. ROBERT DALE PARKER, ‘The Reinvention of Restless Young Men: Storytelling and Poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Thomas King’s Medicine River’, The Invention of Native Ameri-can Literature, Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 2003.

[Hyemeyohsts Storm]
54. SHERRY COOK STANFORTH, ‘Orature and Whole Vision in Seven Arrows’, MELUS, 21: ii, 1996

[Gerald Vizenor]
55. A. ROBERT LEE, ‘Postindian Gamester: The Fiction of Gerald Vizenor’, A Companion to Twen-tieth-Century Fiction, (ed.), David Seed, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

[Anna Lee Walters]
56. REBECCA TILLETT, “ ‘Resting in Peace, Not Pieces’: The Concerns of the Living Dead in Anna Lee Walters’s Ghost Singer’, Specially commissioned essay.

[James Welch]
57. ROBERT FRANKLIN GISH, ‘The Word Medicine of James Welch’. Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano Literature, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

VOLUME IV

Native American Poetry

58. BRIAN SWANN, ‘Introduction: Only the Beginning’, (ed.), Duane Niatum, Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, 1988.

[Paula Gunn Allen]
59. ELIZABETH HANSON, ‘Shadows in Paula Gunn Allen’s “Shadow Country” ’, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 25: xi, 1994.

[Jim Barnes]
60. A. ROBERT LEE, ‘Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagina-tion’, (ed.), A. Robert Lee, The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes, Cambridge, Salt Publishing, 2010.

[Louise Erdrich]
61. HANS BAK, ‘Circles Blaze in Ordinary Days Louise Erdrich’s Jacklight,’ Native
American Women in Literature and Culture, (eds.), Susan Castillo and Victor M.P. Da Rosa, Porto: Fernando Pessoa University Press, 1997.

[Joy Harjo]
62. JENNIFER ANDREWS, ‘In the Belly of a Laughing God: Reading Humor and Irony in the Poetry of Joy Harjo’, AIQ, 24: ii, 2000.

[Linda Hogan]
63. NANCY C. WILSON, ‘The Poetry of Linda Hogan’, The Nature of Native American Poetry, Albu-querque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

[Maurice Kenny]
64. PATRICK BARRON, ‘Maurice Kenny’s Tekonwatoni, Molly Brant: Poetic Memory and History’, MELUS 25: iii-iv, 2000.

[Duane Niatum]
65. CARTER REVARD, ‘Does The Crow Fly? The Poems of Duane Niatum’, SAIL 7: i, 1983.

[Simon Ortiz]
66. PATRICIA CLARK SMITH, ‘Coyote Ortiz: Canis latrans latrans in the Poetry of Simon Ortiz’, Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs, (ed.), Paula Gunn Allen, New York: MLA, 1983.

[Carter Revard]
67. A. ROBERT LEE, “Survivance Memories: The Poetry of Carter Revard”, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, (ed), Gerald Vizenor, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

[Wendy Rose]
68. NORMA C. WILSON, ‘Nesting in the Ruins: The Poetry of Wendy Rose’, The Nature of of Native American Poetry, Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

[Mary TallMountain]
69. GABRIELLE WELFORD, ‘Mary TallMountain’s Writing: Healing The Heart – Going Home’, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 25: i 1994.

[Luci Tapahonso]
70. GRETCHEN M. BATAILLE, “Luci Tapahonso: A Navajo Voice in The Midwest,” Native Ameri-can Women in Literature and Culture, (eds.), Susan Castillo and Victor M.P. Da Rosa, Porto: Fernando Pessoa University Press, 1997.

[Ray Young Bear]
71. ROBERT FRANKLIN GISH, ‘Listening To Ray Young Bear’, Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Es-says on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano Literature, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

[Gerald Vizenor]
72. TOM LYNCH, ‘To Honor Impermanence: The Haiku and Other Poems of Gerald Vizenor’, Loosen-ing the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor, (ed.), A. Robert Lee, Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Ohio,
2000.
[James Welch]
73. KENNETH LINCOLN, ‘Blackfeet Winter Blues’, James Welch, (ed.), Ron McFarland, Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1986.

Native American Drama

74. HANAY L. GEIOGAMAH, ‘The New Native American Theater’, Handbook of Native American Literature, (ed.), Andrew Wiget, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1994, 1996.

[Hanay Geiogamah]
75. JEFFREY HUNTSMAN, ‘Introduction’, in Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama: Three Plays, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

[Lynn Riggs]
76. PHYLLIS COLE BRAUNLICH, ‘The Oklahoma Plays of Lynn Riggs’, World Literature Today, 64: iii, 1990.

Selected First Nations/Canadian Writing

Overviews

77. ROBIN McGRATH and PENNY PETRONE, ‘Native Canadian Literature’, Studies on Canadian Literature: Introductory and Critical Essays, (ed.), Arnold E. Davidson, New York: MLA, 1990.
78. THOMAS KING, ‘Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial’, World Literature Written in English, 30: ii, 1990.

[Jeannette Armstrong]
79. NOEL ELIZABETH CURRIE, ‘Jeannette Armstrong & The Colonial Legacy’, Canadian Litera-ture: Native Writers and Canadian Writing, (ed.), W.H. New, Vancouver: University of British Colum-bia Press, 1990.

[Jeannette Armstrong, Beatrice Culleton]
80. MARGERY FEE, ‘Upsetting Fake Ideas: Jeanette Armstrong’s “Slash” and Beatrice Culleton’s “April Raintree” ’, Canadian Literature: Native Writers and Canadian Writing, (ed.), W.H. New, Van-couver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990.

[Beth Brant]
81. BETH BRANT, ‘Writing Life’, Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk, Toronto: Women’s Press, 1994.

[Beatrice Culleton (née Mosonier)]
82. HELEN HOY, ‘ “Nothing But The Truth”: Discursive Transparency in Beatrice Culleton’, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 25: i, 1994.

[Tomson Highway]
83. DENIS W. JOHNSTON, ‘Lines and Circles: The “Rez” Plays of Tomson Highway’, Canadian Li-terature: Native Writers and Canadian Writing, (ed.), W.H. New, Vancouver: University of British Co-lumbia Press, 1990.

[Thomas King]
84. STUART CHRISTIE, ‘Time-Out’: (Slam)Dunking Photographic Realism in Thomas King’s Medi-cine River’, SAIL, 11:2, 1999.

[Ruby Slipperjack]
85. DEE HORNE, “Listening To Silences’, Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Litera-ture, Frankfurt and London: Peter Lang, 1999.

Selective Historical Chronology: US Native History

Selected Tribal Locations

Bibliographies: Early Native American Writing, Early Modern Native American Writing, Modern Na-tive American Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Native Autobiography and Memoir, Native Autobiography: Col-lections, Studies, Interviews, Conversations, Native Literary, Cultural and Discursive Essays, General Anthologies, Anthologies of Fiction, Anthologies of Poetry, Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, Reference Works, General Critical Studies, Edited essay-collections of criticism, Selected Single Author Critical Studies, Oral and Trickster Sources, Collections and Studies, General Historical Studies, Selected Tribal Histories, Native Studies Journals,

First Nations Chronology

Selected First Nations (Canadian) and Inuit Writing, Criticism and Histories

■編者紹介■
A. Robert Lee, a Britisher formerly of the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo. He has held visiting US appointments at Princeton, the University of Virginia, Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the University of Colorado and Berkeley. Recent publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in The Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998), Postindian Conversations, with Gerald Vizenor (1999), Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the 2004 American Book Award, United States: Re-Viewing American Multicultural Literature (2009), Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2009), and Modern American Counter-Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (2010), along with essay-collections like The Beat Generation Writers (1996), Other British, Other Britain: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction (1995) and China Fictions/English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story (2008).