TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hove, Thomas.
AB -  thomas hove and john m. mckinn the problem of authenticity One of the central debates in Native criticism concerns the difficulty of resolving conflicts between ethnic identification and literary judgment. Approaching this problem from a sociological perspective, we suggest a way to rethink critical treatments of Native American identity and authenticity. Specifically, the following proposal outlines a model for discussing the concept of ethnic authenticity in terms of the social relations that influence the field of Native American literary production. We focus on two pragmatic issues: first, how members of the field put judgments of authenticity to social use; second, how critics and authors perceive these judgments as either legitimate or illegitimate. We believe that questions about the grounds of authenticity cannot be answered by reconstructing the purportedly distinct contents of Native and non-Native epistemologies. Instead of evaluating authenticity's epistemological dimensions, we claim that its rhetorical and sociological dimensions take greater precedence. Accordingly, we recommend reframing the problem of authenticity as follows: in what institutional, cultural, and social relations do the meanings of authenticity matter, and how do different members of the field use these meanings for either cooperative or competitive purposes? If critics focus on the social 
TI - A Relational Model for Native American Literary Criticism
JF - Studies in American Indian Literatures
DA - 2008-04-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-nebraska-press/a-relational-model-for-native-american-literary-criticism-o0GrvJBUeI
SP - 197
EP - 208
VL - 19
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve