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
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.
