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Introduction: Recognition of the African- Native American Literary Tradition Jonathan Brennan i PART I: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE 1. On the Interaction of Traditions: Southeastern Rabbit Tales as African-Native American Folklore David Elton Gay roI 2. Brer Rabbit and His Cherokee Cousin: Moving Beyond the Appropriation Paradigm Sandra K. Baringer I14 PART 2: AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN CAPTIVITY AND SLAVE NARRATIVES 3. Briton Hammon, the Indian Captivity Narrative, and the African American Slave Narrative John Sekora I4I 4. Recapturing John Marrant Benilde Montgomery 158 5. Speaking Cross Boundaries: A Nineteenth-Century African-Native American Autobiography Jonathan Brennan 168 PART 3: MARDI GRAS INDIAN PERFORMANCE 6. In Search of the Mardi Gras Indians Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones I97 7. Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counternarrative in Black New Orleans George Lipsitz 218 PART 4: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-NATIVE AMERICAN SUBJECTIVITY 8. Wrapped in the Serpent's Tail: Alice Walker's African- Native American Subjectivity Patricia Riley 241 9. "If You Know I Have a History, You Will Respect Me": A Perspective on African-Native American Literature Sharon P. Holland 257 10. African-Native American Subjectivity and the Blues Voice in the Writings of Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie Paul Pasquaretta 278Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: American literature African American authors History and criticism, American literature Indian authors History and criticism, Literature, Comparative African American and Indian, Literature, Comparative Indian and African American, Indians of North America Intellectual life, Literature and folklore United States, Indians of North America Folklore, African Americans in literature, African Americans Folklore, Folklore in literature, Indians in literature