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Mixedblood Messages : Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Publication Date: 2001-10-15. Number of Pages: 288. Weight: 0.73 lbs. ISBN10: 0806133813. Publisher: GILCREASE MUSEUM.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-100806133813
ISBN-139780806133812
eBay Product ID (ePID)1921184
Product Key Features
Book TitleMixedblood Messages : Literature, Film, Family, Place
Number of Pages282 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEthnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorLouis Owens
Book SeriesAmerican Indian Literature and Critical Studies Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-027628
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number26
Dewey Decimal970/.00497
SynopsisIn 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., 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., 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., Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers.
LC Classification NumberE98.M63O9 2001
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