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KURZE BESCHREIBUNG/ANMERKUNGEN: Hochstapler geben vor, jemand zu sein, der sie nicht sind. Sie konstruieren eine Lebensgeschichte, die sich bestimmter kultureller Vorannahmen und Stereotype bedient, um für andere glaubhaft zu sein. Doch ist Identität nicht stets auch Produkt eines erzählerischen Selbstentwurfs? Am Beispiel von wahren und imaginierten Fällen von Betrügern in Nordamerika fragen die Beiträge des Bandes nach den Motiven von Hochstapelei, den Mechanismen der Täuschung und warum diese funktionieren. INHALT: Table of ContentsAcknowledgments9Introduction11Caroline Rosenthal and Stefanie SchäferFaking It: Real Impostors and the Fabrication of IdentitiesThe Message Becomes the Messenger: Jonathan Carver's Travels between Imposture and Nationalist Self-Fashioning27Ramin Djahazi'The Wish to be a Red Indian': The Canadian Dream of Grey Owl45Caroline RosenthalThe Curious Case of Asa Carter and The Education of Little Tree62Laura BrowderThe Impostor as Trickster as Innovator: A Re-Reading of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan Cycle81Stefan LöchleMaking the Fake: Fake Identities in Literature, Film, and TV"You Do an Awfully Good Impression of Yourself": Authorial Impostors in Contemporary American Fiction99Jan D. KucharzewskiReading Fiction under False Assumptions? Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins and her Posthumous Passing for Black111Yulia KozyrakisUnwilling Impostors, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels126Victor GoldgelFrom Rinehartism to Capgras: Imposture and the American Dream143Christian KnirschWatch Me If You Can: The Return of the Impostor in Contemporary Film159Wieland SchwanebeckThe Con Man and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood175Martin Holtz"A Man is Whatever Room He's in": Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC's Mad Men190Stefanie MuellerAlterNatives?-A CodaIdentity Joyriding with the Trickster in Drew Hayden Taylor's Motorcycles & Sweetgrass211Maryann HenckPretending to Be an Impostor 227Drew Hayden TaylorContributors231Index234 AUSZUG AUS DEM BUCH: AcknowledgmentsThe present volume results from an international symposium held at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in April 2012, which most of the con-tributors attended. We are grateful to the Leipzig Consulate, the GKS, and the Alumni Association of Friedrich-Schiller University Jena for issuing publication grants which made this book possible at a time of economic austerity, and to Canadian indigenous writer Drew Hayden Taylor, whose short fictional piece truly embellishes this academic publication. We would particularly like to thank Mareike Dolata for her enthusiasm and tireless efforts in helping to edit this volume. Jena, December 2013Caroline Rosenthal and Stefanie SchäferIntroductionCaroline Rosenthal and Stefanie SchäferIn 2008, after a spectacular thirty years of successfully impersonating other identities, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter from Siegsdorf in Bavaria was discovered to be an impostor. The Bavarian had continuously reinvented himself in personas of ever increasing social status. He was, among others, Chris Gerhart, an affluent American the thirteenth Baron of Chichester and descendant of the famous sailor and finally became James Frederick Mills Clark Rockefeller, art collector, Wall Street trader, and a descendant of the famous American oil magnate. He married a rich businesswoman who divorced him twelve years later when she began to suspect that he was not who he pretended to be. Gerhartsreiter/Rockefeller's sham was only exposed when he kidnapped his seven year old daughter and became the subject of a manhunt on the American East Coast. Commentators on the Gerhartsreiter case agree that the story of his imposture reads too fantastic to be true (see Haas 2013, Seal 2011). Ger-hartsreiter's was a con game par excellence: He had no social security number or tax report, no credit cards or passports in his name, but con-vinced others to support him, both financially and socially. He so success-fully performed a legendary WASPish identity that bystanding socialites even identified his "Rockefeller chin [ ], a dead giveaway" (Seal 2011, 10). Not only did his acquaintances fail to see that his identity was faked, they over-construed it to show themselves as experts on such things as the chin of a scion. The Gerhartsreiter case thus renders the cultural conceptions at work in the making of personal identity: It has to be constructed and performed by a Self but also validated and authenticated by an Other. Impostor cases show that authenticity, the concept that is vital in identity formation, is a construct based on stereotypical markers of language, behavior, and dress. Imposture as discussed in this volume means posing as somebody more privileged. It entails shedding one's previous identity to take on a new one for personal gain, social, or financial improvement. Impostors are therefore invested in their performance in myriad ways. The present volume uses the impostor narrative to examine cultural constructions of identity and authenticity in North America through a literally negative lens. Confidence games, going Native, and racial passing are all renditions of the same process that is exposed when the audience stops to believe and authenticate it. In the deconstruction of 'true' identity the parameters at work in any identity construction become visible. Imposture and Authenticity: The Economy of IdentityAn imposed identity, just like any identity, is constituted in performative acts and becomes real or true when others take the masquerade at face value. As the Gerhartsreiter case and others have shown, impostors often 'become' the other person and leave their old identity behind. The new identity becomes true in an act of authentication. Authenticity thus func-tions as the 'currency' of identity formation. Imposture offers a means for historicizing and contextualizing what is authentic: 'Faked' white, male, or upper class identities illuminate that such BIOGRAFIE Rosenthal, Caroline: Caroline Rosenthal ist Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik der Universität Konstanz. Taschenbuch / Paperback.

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