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Article: Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction.
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 1998
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Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction James Ruppert Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 174 pp.
Just as there is really no such thing as the American Indian, there is really no such thing as Native American literature, aside from the particular degree of Indianness or the respective Indian culture of the author, the text, and the reader. Is the way that any given Native American reader reacts to any given Native American author so different from how any given non-Native American reader reacts to Native American fiction? Anger? Betrayal? Triumph? The process of dealing with appropriation, misappropriation, and degree/ kind thus becomes ...