Fake Identity?
The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caroline Rosenthal and Stefanie Schäfer
Faking It: Real Imposters and the Fabrication of Identities
The Message Becomes the Messenger: Jonathan Carver’s Travels between Imposture and Nationalist Self-Fashioning
Ramin Djahazi
‘The Wish to be a Red Indian’: The Canadian Dream of Grey Owl
Caroline Rosenthal
The Curious Case of Asa Carter and The Education of Little Tree
Laura Browder
The Imposter as Trickster as Innovator: A Re-Reading of Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan Cycle
Stefan Löchle
Making the Fake: Fake Identities in Literature, Film, and TV
“You Do an Awfully Good Impression of Yourself”: Authorial Imposters in Contemporary American Fiction
Jan D. Kucharzewski
Reading Fiction under False Assumptions? Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins and her Posthumous Passing for Black
Yulia Kozyrakis
Unwilling Imposters, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels
Victor Goldgel
From Rinehartism to Capgras: Imposture and the American Dream
Christian Knirsch
Watch Me If You Can: The Return of the Imposter in Contemporary Film
Wieland Schwanebeck
The Con Man and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
Martin Holtz
“A Man is Whatever Room He’s In”: Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC’s Mad Men
Stefanie Mueller
AlterNatives? – A Coda
Identifying Joyriding with the Trickster in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Maryann Henck
Pretending to Be an Imposter
Drew Hayden Taylor
Contributors
Index
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