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Indians of North America --- Métis --- Mixed descent --- Biography --- Biographie --- Campbell, Maria --- Campbell, Maria --- Bibliography --- Bibliographie

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This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s. Katja Sarkowsky argues that literary texts conceptualize citizenship as political “co-actorship” and as cultural “co-authorship” (Boele van Hensbroek), using citizenship as a metaphor of ambivalent affiliations within and beyond Canada. In its exploration of urban, indigenous, environmental, and diasporic citizenship as well as of citizenship’s growing entanglement with questions of human rights, Canadian literature reflects and feeds into the term’s conceptual diversification. Exploring the works of Guillermo Verdecchia, Joy Kogawa, Jeannette Armstrong, Maria Campbell, Cheryl Foggo, Fred Wah, Michael Ondaatje, and Dionne Brand, this text investigates how citizenship functions to denote emplaced practices of participation in multiple collectives that are not restricted to the framework of the nation-state.

Sociology --- Public administration --- American literature --- Literature --- sociologie --- literatuur --- burgerschap --- Brand, Dionne --- Verdecchia, Guillermo --- Kogowa, Joy --- Armstrong, Jeannette --- Campbell, Maria --- Foggo, Cheryl --- Wah, Fred --- Ondaatje, Michael --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- America

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A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally. An indispensable resource for readers, students, and scholars of Native literatures in North America, Native Authenticity offers a clear, comprehensive, and systematic look at the diversity of critical approaches to the idea of "Indian-ness." Some of the foremost transatlantic scholars of Native studies in North America and Europe share their insights on this highly charged aspect of the contemporary theoretical field of Native studies. The issue of "authenticity" or "Indian-ness" generates a controversial debate in studies of indigenous American literatures. The articulation of Native identity through the prism of Euro-American attempts to confine "Indian" groups to essentialized spaces is resisted by some Native writers, while others recognize a need for essentialist categories as a key strategy in the struggle for social justice and a perpetually renewed sense of Native sovereignty. Pressure from neocolonial essentializing practices is in conflict with a politics of cultural sovereignty, which demands a notion of "Indian" essence or "authenticity" as a foundation for community values, heritage, and social justice. Contributors participate in a scholarly and pedagogical search for an intellectual paradigm for Native literary studies that is apart from, yet cognizant with, powerful colonial legacies. The complex politics of Polynesian authenticity versus Native indigeneity is engaged by Native Hawaiian writers as they negotiate conflicting demands upon personal and tribal identities. Related to this questioning is the authenticity debate in Canadian First Nations writing, where the claim to authenticity rests upon a claim to historical precedence; also related is the highly contentious claim by some Chicano/a writers to an indigenous heritage as a claim to authority and "American" authenticity. Essays in this volume are focused upon the diverse and sophisticated responses of Native writers and scholars, while offering comparative perspectives on Native Hawaiian, Chicano, and Canadian literatures.

Authenticiteit (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature --- Authenticité (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Indianen in de literatuur --- Indians in literature --- Indiens dans la litterature --- American literature --- Indians in literature. --- Indians of North America --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Indian authors --- History and criticism --- Ethnic identity. --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity --- Vizenor, Gerald Robert --- Criticism and interpretation --- Prewett, Frank --- Campbell, Maria --- Dandurand, Joseph A. --- Griffiths, Linda --- Turcotte, Mark --- Littérature américaine --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Autheticité (philosophie) --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Amérique du Nord --- Identité collective --- Littérature américaine --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Autheticité (philosophie) --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Dans la littérature --- Amérique du Nord --- Identité collective