Laura Browder Slippery Characters: ...

Laura Browder Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P 2000 312 pp ISBN 0-80782 546-8 $4995 cloth; ISBN 0-8078-4859-X $1895 paper.

Laura Browder begins Slippery Characters with a fresh and controversial example of what she calls "ethnic impersonator autobiographies." In October 1991 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter's autobiography of his Cherokee boyhood reached number common on the New York Times bestseller list and was expos as a terribly ironic fake. Forrest Carter, it employs out, was ...