{"product_id":"american-indian-literature-and-the-southwest-contexts-and-dispositions-paperback-softback-9780292704886","title":"American Indian Literature and the Southwest; Contexts and Dispositions (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292704886","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Indian Literature and the Southwest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContexts and Dispositions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEric Gary Anderson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292704886\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e239 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulture-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecraft myths, Leslie Marmon Silko's \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, 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' \u003ci\u003eMcTeague\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Austin's \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Little Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Winnemucca's \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Piutes\u003c\/i\u003e, Willa Cather's \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's House\u003c\/i\u003e, George Herriman's modernist comic strip \u003ci\u003eKrazy Kat\u003c\/i\u003e, and A. A. Carr's Navajo-vampire novel \u003ci\u003eEye Killers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. Migration and Displacement in the American Southwest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. Mobile Homes: Migration and Resistance in American Indian Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. Unsettling Frontiers: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw Southwest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason Betzinez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Photography as Resistance in Almanac of the Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Indian Detours, or, Where the Indians Aren't: Management and Preservation in the Euro-American Southwest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six. Driven to Extraction: McTeague in the Desert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the Problems of Authority\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight. Cleaning out the House: Tom Outland, Dead Indians, and the First World War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Nine. Krazy Kat I: Contexts and Crossings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Ten. Krazy Kat II: Navajo Aesthetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Cross-Purposes and Purposeful Crossings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530842698008,"sku":"9780292704886","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-indian-literature-and-the-southwest-contexts-and-dispositions-paperback-softback-9780292704886","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}