Mixedblood Messages Literature, Film, Family, Place

Name: Mixedblood Messages Literature, Film, Family, Place
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ISBN: 9780806133812

ISBN-10: 0806133813

ISBN-13: 9780806133812

Edition: 2001

Authors: Louis Owens

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In this challenging & often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity & relationship to the environment as depicted in literature & film & as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family & land. Powerful social & historical forces, he maintains, conspire to colonize literature & film by & about Native Americans into a safe "Indian Territory" that will contain & neutralize Indians. Countering this colonial "Territory" is what Owens defines as "Frontier", a dynamic, uncontainable, multidirectional space within which cultures meet & even merge. Owens offers new insights into the works of Indian writers ranging from John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, & D'Arcy McNickle to N.…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 10/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface: Crow Love


Acknowledgments



Mixedbloods and Mixed Messages: Adventures in Native American Literature



Columbus Had It Coming: Crossbloods, Crossreading, and Cultural Survival



Beads and Buckskin: Reading Native American Literature



Mapping the Mixedblood: Frontier and Territory in Native America



Multicultural Tourism: Native American Literature, Canon, and Campus



"The Song Is Very Short": Native American Literature and Literary Theory



Through an Amber Glass: Chief Doom and the Native American Novel Today



"Grinning Aboriginal Demons": Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the End of Tragedy



Filming the Territory



The Invention of John Wayne



Apocalypse at the Two-Socks Hop: Dancing with the Vanishing American



Autobiographical Reflections, or Mixed Blood and Mixed Messages



Blood Trails: Missing Grandmothers and Making Worlds



Motion of Fire and Form



Water Witch



Shared Blood



Words, Wilderness, and Native America



Mapping, Naming, and the Power of Words



Burning the Shelter



"Everywhere There Was Life": How Native Americans Can Save the World


Notes


References


Index