American Indian Literature and the Southwest

Contexts and Dispositions

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

Culture-to-culture encounters between "natives" and "aliens" have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest-among American Indian tribes, between American Indians and Euro-Americans, and even, according to some, between humans and extraterrestrials at Roswell, New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range of cultural productions including novels, films, paintings, comic strips, and historical studies, this groundbreaking book explores the Southwest as both a real and a culturally constructed site of migration and encounter, in which the very identities of "alien" and "native" shift with each act of travel.Eric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecraft myths, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Wendy Rose's poetry, the outlaw narratives of Billy the Kid, Apache autobiographies by Geronimo and Jason Betzinez, paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, New West history by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Frank Norris' McTeague, Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain, Sarah Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, George Herriman's modernist comic strip Krazy Kat, and A. A. Carr's Navajo-vampire novel Eye Killers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-02-01
Mått:178 x 254 x 13 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:239
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292704886

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Eric Gary Anderson is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University, where he teaches American and Native American literatures.

Recensioner i media

"I know of no other book that ranges as widely over the field of the 'Southwest,' understood as an aesthetic construct... At its best (which is almost always), Anderson's writing is lively, witty, engaging, provocative, readable." - Robert M. Nelson, Professor of English, University of Richmond

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Migration and Displacement in the American SouthwestChapter One. Mobile Homes: Migration and Resistance in American Indian LiteratureChapter Two. Unsettling Frontiers: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw SouthwestChapter Three. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason BetzinezChapter Four. Photography as Resistance in Almanac of the DeadChapter Five. Indian Detours, or, Where the Indians Aren't: Management and Preservation in the Euro-American SouthwestChapter Six. Driven to Extraction: McTeague in the DesertChapter Seven. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the Problems of AuthorityChapter Eight. Cleaning out the House: Tom Outland, Dead Indians, and the First World WarChapter Nine. Krazy Kat I: Contexts and CrossingsChapter Ten. Krazy Kat II: Navajo AestheticsConclusion. Cross-Purposes and Purposeful Crossings