| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations. Edited by Gretchen M. Bataille. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. viii + 265 pp. Bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.)

Reading Native American Representations, one is struck by David Moore's assertion: "Colonizers are intoxicated by the violence of dualities" (p. 56). As this book occasionally proves, scholars have the capacity to get equally drunk. In toasting the binary opposition of Colonizer and Other, scholars risk obscuring—even denying—the multiplicity of experiences among both Colonizers and Others. 1

On the other hand, the Colonizer/Other binary explains much history. For centuries, Colonizers held the sovereign literary power to define Native American Others. Whether they represented Native Americans as noble and doomed or as ignoble and doomed, Colonizers figuratively and literally dispossessed Indians of their lands and cultures. Harnessing the word, Colonizers harnessed the world. What the authors of Native American Representations unanimously proclaim is that Native Americans, through their literature, now struggle to harness the word and the world for their own purposes. That struggle unifies and animates these essays and makes them relevant to discussions of history, representation, and authorial authenticity. . . .

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