Mixedblood Messages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixedblood Messages write by Louis Owens. This book was released on 2001. Mixedblood Messages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to colonize literature and film by and about Native Americans into a safe "Indian Territory" that will contain and neutralize Indians. Countering this colonial "Territory" is what Owens defines as "Frontier," a dynamic, uncontainable, multi-directional space within which cultures meet and even merge. Owens offers new insights into the works of Indian writers ranging from John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, and D'Arcy McNickle to N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor. In his analysis of Indians in film he scrutinizes distortions of Indians as victims or vanishing Americans in a series of John Wayne movies and in the politically correct but false gestures of the more recent Dances With Wolves. As Owens moves through his personal landscape in Oklahoma, Mississippi, California, and New Mexico, he questions how human beings collectively can alter their disastrous relationship with the natural world before they destroy it. He challenges all of us to articulate, through literature and other means, messages of personal and environmental — as well as cultural—survival, and to explore and share these messages by writing and reading across cultural boundaries.
Toward a Native American Critical Theory
Toward a Native American Critical Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Native American Critical Theory write by Elvira Pulitano. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Toward a Native American Critical Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Unlike Western interpretations of Native American literatures and cultures in which external critical methodologies are imposed on Native texts, ultimately silencing the primary voices of the texts themselves, Pulitano's work examines critical material generated from within the Native contexts to propose a different approach to Native literature. Pulitano argues that the distinctiveness of Native American critical theory can be found in its aggressive blending and reimagining of oral tradition and Native epistemologies on the written page - a powerful, complex mediation that can stand on its own yet effectively subsume and transform non-Native critical theoretical strategies."--BOOK JACKET.
I Hear the Train
I Hear the Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Hear the Train write by Louis Owens. This book was released on 2001. I Hear the Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America. In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. In a final section, Owens reflects on the work and theories of other writers, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Vizenor, Michael Dorris, and Louise Erdrich. Volume 40 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives
Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives write by Anna M Brígido-Corachán. This book was released on 2023-11-01. Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing from a vantage point that respects tribal specificities and Indigenous sovereignty, the essays in this volume consider the relational place-worlds crafted by the Native American authors Louise Erdrich, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gordon Henry Jr., Louis Owens, James Welch, Heid E. Erdrich, Ofelia Zepeda, and Simon J. Ortiz. Each is set in conversation with kindred writers and larger sociopolitical debates in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. The shared aim is to decolonize academic methodologies and disciplines across the Atlantic by tracing the creative, spiritual, and intellectual networks that Native writers have established with other communities at home and around the world. Key issues to arise include Native American/Indigenous theories and literary practices that center on relationality, the planetary turn, grounded normativity, trans-Indigeneity, transborder identities, movement, journeying, migration, multilingualism, genomic research, futurity, ecology, and justice.
Across Cultures / Across Borders
Across Cultures / Across Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Across Cultures / Across Borders write by Paul Depasquale. This book was released on 2009-12-23. Across Cultures / Across Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Cultures/Across Borders is a collection of new critical essays, interviews, and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging Canadian Aboriginal and Native American scholars and creative writers across Turtle Island. Together, these original works illustrate diverse but interconnecting knowledges and offer powerfully relevant observations on Native literature and culture.
