Mixedblood messages : literature, film, family, place / by Louis Owens.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 26.
Main Author: Owens, Louis
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1998], ©1998.
Series:American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 26.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Mixed descent.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures > North America.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Physical Description:xvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Mixedbloods and mixed messages : adventures in native American literature. 1. Columbus had it coming : crossbloods, crossreading, and cultural survival
  • 2. Beads and buckskin : reading native American literature
  • 3. Mapping the mixedblood : frontier and territory in native America
  • 4. Multicultural tourism : native American literature, canon, and campus
  • 5. "The Song is very short" : native American literature and literary theory
  • 6. Through an maber glass : Chief Doom and the native American novel today
  • 7. "Grinning aboriginal demons" : Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and the end of tragedy. Pt. 2. Filming the territory. 8. The Invention of John Wayne
  • 9. Apocalypse at the two-socks hop : dancing with the vanishing American.
  • Pt. 3. Autobiographical reflections, or mixed blood and mixed messages. 10. Blood trails : missing grandmothers and making worlds
  • 11. Motion of fire and form
  • 12. Water witch
  • 13. Shared blood. Pt. 4. Words, wilderness, and native America. 14. Mapping, naming, and the power of words
  • 15. Burning the shelter
  • 16. "Everywhere there was life" : how native Americans can save the world.