Table of Contents
Introduction: "I was indigenous...and they made me indigent": Colonialism and New Western Narrative
Western American History as Colonial Palimpsest
New Western Revisionism
Autobiographical Conventions in New Western Narrative
Chapter Descriptions
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
Autobiographical Adaptations of the Western in The Solace of Open Spaces
Refiguring Legacies of Personal and Cultural Dysfunction in Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
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
The Contradictions of a Western "Eden" in Homestead
Synedochic Life Writing in Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land
Chapter 3: Wounding, Survival, and Authorship in William Kittredge's Hole in the Sky: A Memoir and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller
Breaking Down the Mythology of Ownership: Confession and Disempowerment in Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
The Web of Survival: Multiform Autobiography as Resistance in Storyteller
Chapter 4: "Like all emigrants caught between here and there": Crossing Borders in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo
Weaving Collective Identities
Challenging Generic Boundaries
Reworking Gender Relations
Revising Rigid Notions of Race
Destabilizing the Geographic Nation
Reading Literature as History
Borderland Dislocations in the New West
Conclusion: Multiform Narratives and the Rewriting of History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
