Table of Contents:
  • On the interaction of traditions / David Elton Gay
  • Brer Rabbit and his Cherokee cousin / Sandra K. Baringer
  • Briton Hammon, the Indian captivity narrative and the African American slave narrative / John Sekora
  • Recapturing John Marant / Benilde Montgomery
  • Speaking across boundaries / Jonathan Brennan
  • In search of the Mardi Gras Indians / Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones
  • Mardi Gras Indians, carnival and counter-narrative in Black New Orleans / George Lipsitz
  • Wrapped in the serpent's tail, Alice Walker's African-native American subjectivity / Patricia Riley
  • If you know I have a history, you will respect me / Sharon P. Holland
  • African-Native American subjectivity and the blues voice in the writings of Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie / Paul Pasquaretta.