Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, Elvira Pulitano -- Part One: Theoretical Crossings -- 1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem, Hartwig Isernhagen -- 2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature, Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- 3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America, Helmbrecht Breinig -- Part Two: From Early Fiction to Recent Directions -- 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Josepht Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded: Gaetano Prampolini -- 5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel: Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- Part Three: Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing -- 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Deborah L. Madsen -- 7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry, Kathryn Napier Gray -- 8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Rebecca Tillett -- Part Four: Comparative Mythologies, Transatlantic Journeys -- 9. Vizenor's Trickster Theft: Pretexts and Paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, Paul Beekman Taylor -- 10. "June Walked over It like Water and Came Home": Cross-Cultural Symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks, Mark Shackleton -- 11. Encounters across Time and Space: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power, Yonka Krasteva -- 12. Double Translation: James Welch's Heartson of Charging Elk, Ulla Haselstein -- 13. Clowns, Indians, and Poodles: Spectacular Others in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train, Simone Pellerin -- 14. Oklahoma International: Jim Barnes, Poetry, and the Sites of Imagination, A. Robert Lee -- Contributors -- Index.