Contents

Introduction: American Literature and Post-colonial Theory

Part 1 Ethnic Literature and Post-colonialism

1. Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative Frames

Part 2 Post-colonialism at Home

2. “Going Into a Whole Different Country”: Postcolonial 'Nation"-hood in Native American Literature

3. Origin Story: On Being a White Native American(ist)

4. Counter-Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Chicana Writting

5. “At Least One Negro Everywhere”: African American Travel Writing

6. Unsettling Asian American Literature: When More than America is in the Heart

7. Forging a Postcolonial Identity: Women of Chinese Ancestry Writing in English

8. Border Crossings: Filipino American Literature in the United States

9. Reading the Literatures of Hawai’i Under an "Americanist" Rubric

Part 3 Post-colonialism in the Border Regions

10. Writing Migrations: The Place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature

11. Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's Literature

12. Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place

13. Thomas King and Contemporary Indigenous Identities

Part 4 American Post-colonialism at Home and Abroad

14. Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context

15. Politics, Pleasure, and Intertextuality in Contemporary Southeast Asian Women's Writing

16. U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and Assimilation

List of Contributors

Index