Introduction / Kenneth M. Roemer --
Timeline: literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions / Kenneth M. Roemer --
PART I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS --
Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature / Joy Porter --
Translation and mediation / David Murray --
Women writers and gender issues / Annette Van Dyke --
PART II. GENRE CONTEXTS --
Non-fiction prose / Bernd Peyer --
Native American life writing / Hertha D. Sweet Wong --
America's indigenous poetry / Norma C. Wilson --
Pre-1968 fiction / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff --
Fiction: 1968 to the present / James Ruppert --
American Indian theatre / Ann Haugo --
PART III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS --
N. Scott Momaday: becoming the bear / Chadwick Allen --
Simon Ortiz: writing home / Patricia Clark Smith --
James Welch: identity, circumstances and chance / Kathryn W. Shanley --
Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller / Robert M. Nelson --
Gerald Vizenor: postindian liberation / Kimberly M. Blaeser --
Louise Erdrich's storied universe / Catherine Rainwater --
Joy Harjo's poetry / Laura Coltelli --
Sherman Alexie: irony, intimacy, and agency / David L. Moore.
