Table of Content
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 9
Introduction 11 Caroline Rosenthal and Stefanie Schäfer
Faking It: Real Impostors and the Fabrication of Identities
The Message Becomes the Messenger: Jonathan Carver’s Travels between Imposture and Nationalist Self-Fashioning 27 Ramin Djahazi
‘The Wish to be a Red Indian’: The Canadian Dream of Grey Owl 45 Caroline Rosenthal
The Curious Case of Asa Carter and The Education of Little Tree 62 Laura Browder
The Impostor as Trickster as Innovator: A Re-Reading of Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan Cycle 81 Stefan Löchle
Making the Fake: Fake Identities in Literature, Film, and TV
‘You Do an Awfully Good Impression of Yourself’: Authorial Impostors in Contemporary American Fiction 99 Jan D. Kucharzewski
Reading Fiction under False Assumptions? Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins and her Posthumous Passing for Black 111 Yulia Kozyrakis
Unwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels 126 Victor Goldgel
From Rinehartism to Capgras: Imposture and the American Dream 143 Christian Knirsch
Watch Me If You Can: The Return of the Impostor in Contemporary Film 159 Wieland Schwanebeck
The Con Man and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood 175 Martin Holtz
‘A Man is Whatever Room He’s in’: Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC’s Mad Men 190 Stefanie Mueller
Alter Natives?-A Coda
Identity Joyriding with the Trickster in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass 211 Maryann Henck
Pretending to Be an Impostor 227 Drew Hayden Taylor
Contributors 231
Index 234
About the author
Caroline Rosenthal ist Professorin für amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Jena. Stefanie Schäfer, Dr. phil., ist dort wissenschaftliche Assistentin.10,458 Ebooks in this category
