Asa Earl Carter - Bibliography

Bibliography

Books by Forrest Carter

• The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (Whippoorwill Pub., 1973; reprinted by Delacorte in 1975 as Gone to Texas; and by Dell in 1980 as The Outlaw Josey Wales).
• The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales (Delacorte Press, 1976)
• The Education of Little Tree (Delacorte Press, 1976)
• Watch for Me on the Mountain (Delacorte Press, 1978, republished by Dell in 1980 as Cry Geronimo!)

Books about Carter's faking of ethnicity

• Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Laura Browder, 2003)
• Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Shari M. Huhndorf, 2004)
• Native American Fiction: A User's Guide (David Treuer, 2006)

Articles about Carter's faking of ethnicity

• Carter, Dan T. "The Transformation of a Klansman", The New York Times, October 4, 1991.
• ———. "Southern History, American Fiction: The Secret Life of Southwestern Novelist Forrest Carter", in Rewriting the South: History and Fiction, ed. Lothar Honnighausen and Valeria Gennaro Lerda (Tübingen: Francke, 1993). 286-304.
• Gates, Henry Louis Jr. "'Authenticity', or the Lesson of Little Tree", The New York Times Book Review, November 24, 1991.
• Greenhaw, Wayne. (uncredited) "Is Forrest Carter Really Asa Carter? Only Josey Wales May Know for Sure", The New York Times, August 26, 1976.
• McGurl, Mark. "Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture", Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005
• Reid, Calvin. "Widow of 'Little Tree' Author Admits He Changed Identity", Publishers Weekly, October 25, 1991.
• Rubin, Dana. "The Real Education of Little Tree", Texas Monthly, February, 1992
• Treuer, David. "Going native: Why do writers pretend to be Indians?", Slate.com, March 7, 2008.