In North America, where the sociocultural history and national
mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile
ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real,"
impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic impersonation
to racial passing, going native, and confidence tricks, when it is
discovered, imposture incites fascination and scandal--yet it also
showcases how identities are made. The essays in this book examine
both real and fictional renditions of North American imposture,
placing these narratives in historical context even as they shed
light on larger currents such as identity as performance and the
cultural value attributed to authenticity in Western societies.
From the narrator of colonial travelogues to postmodernist author
and narrator voices, and from the urban con game to trickster
shamanism, fake identities are shown to be a negative lens through
which the performance of self is revealed.
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