"Arnold Krupat's book is immensely exciting, provocative, and introduces to the study of American literature(s) a bold new critical Cultural studies perspective that undermines radically the conceptual segregation and institutional isolation of Native American literary and cultural texts. . . . His dialectically rigorous work will help set the parameters for any future discussion of Native American texts and their relation to questions of canon formation, identity creation, 'the Collective (non-schizophrenic) subject, ' and cultural resistance."--José David Saldívar, University of California, Santa Cruz