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Table of Contents
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: “I was indigenous and…they made me indigent”: Colonialism and New Western Narrative |
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Western American History as Colonial Palimpsest |
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New Western Revisionism |
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Autobiographical Conventions in New Western Narrative |
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Chapter 1: Historical Erasure and Recovery in Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces and Janet Campbell Hale’s Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter |
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Autobiographical Adaptations of the Western in The Solace of Open Spaces |
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Refiguring Legacies of Personal and Cultural Dysfunction in Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter |
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Chapter 2: Haunting Anxieties and Synecdochic Selfhood in Annick Smith’s Homestead and Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land |
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The Contradictions of a Western “Eden” in Homestead |