American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions
Autor Eric Gary Andersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 1999
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292704886
ISBN-10: 0292704887
Pagini: 239
Ilustrații: 13 Cartoons
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0292704887
Pagini: 239
Ilustrații: 13 Cartoons
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Eric Gary Anderson is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University, where he teaches American and Native American literatures.
Cuprins
- Introduction. Migration and Displacement in the American Southwest
- Chapter One. Mobile Homes: Migration and Resistance in American Indian Literature
- Chapter Two. Unsettling Frontiers: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw Southwest
- Chapter Three. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason Betzinez
- Chapter Four. Photography as Resistance in Almanac of the Dead
- Chapter Five. Indian Detours, or, Where the Indians Aren't: Management and Preservation in the Euro-American Southwest
- Chapter Six. Driven to Extraction: McTeague in the Desert
- Chapter Seven. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the Problems of Authority
- Chapter Eight. Cleaning out the House: Tom Outland, Dead Indians, and the First World War
- Chapter Nine. Krazy Kat I: Contexts and Crossings
- Chapter Ten. Krazy Kat II: Navajo Aesthetics
- Conclusion. Cross-Purposes and Purposeful Crossings
Descriere
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.