Louis Owens

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806133813

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Mixedblood Messages by Louis Owens Pdf

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.

Author : Joe Lockard,A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826360984

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Louis Owens by Joe Lockard,A. Robert Lee Pdf

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish American descent, Owens's work includes mysteries, novels, literary scholarship, and autobiographical essays. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: "Owens and the World," "Owens and California," and "The Novels." The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens's literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of theories and genres. The collection concludes with a coda of personal poetic reflections on Owens by Diane Glancy and Kimberly Blaeser. Libraries, students, scholars, and the general public interested in Native American literature and the landscape of contemporary US literature will welcome this reflective volume that analyzes a vast range of Louis Owens's imaginative fictions, personal accounts, and critical work.

Author : Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806135875

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Louis Owens by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick Pdf

Louis Owens (1948–2002) achieved worldwide recognition with his humorous and fearless novels that explored themes close to Owens’s own upbringing as a mixed-blood Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish-American. His critical works were equally substantive. Readers of his criticism find his work challenging, and casual readers find his fiction highly enjoyable—a remarkable combination that speaks well of Owens’s intellectual and creative abilities. In a new collection of essays, Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work, editor Jacquelyn Kilpatrick and eleven other contributors examine Owens’s fiction and nonfiction from widely varying viewpoints to address issues such as identity, place, literary theory, trickster motifs, and the environment. This text aids the reader in understanding the theories Owens articulated and how he followed those theories in his own writing. Also included is the last interview Owens gave, appearing in print for the first time, which provides insights into this complex man’s personal life.

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0806133546

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I Hear the Train by Louis Owens Pdf

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

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806127376

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Wolfsong by Louis Owens Pdf

In the Cascade Range of northwest Washington, Tom Joseph, a young Indian who had gone south to attend college, returns for his uncle's funeral and finds himself caught up in the old man’s fight to save the wilderness from destruction. In his first novel, Louis Owens exposes the raw edge of the current American land-rights controversy and poses questions about authenticity and the common bonds that American Indians, of very different or mixed backgrounds, are in the process of discovering today.

Author : Donald McRae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471134722

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In Black And White by Donald McRae Pdf

In 1936 athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics and, two years later, boxer Joe Louis won a crushing victory to become heavyweight champion of the world. Despite their fame and success, both men would find themselves barred from certain hotels and would have to eat outside restaurants because of the colour of their skin. However. by their example, they gave hope to millions of black people around the world as they became the first black superstars. In Donald McRae's William Hill prize-winning dual biography, he compiles a brilliant portrait of the two men, who became close friends despite their very different career paths: within days of Olympic glory, Owens was banned from competing again, and was forced to spend his days racing against horses to earn a living before becoming a spokesman for the sporting ideal. Meanwhile Louis won and lost a fortune, eventually battling with drug addiction and mental illness. His vivid account of their lives away from the public eye, and the era in which they lived, is compelling and tragic.

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015010352154

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John Steinbeck's Re-vision of America by Louis Owens Pdf

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806125616

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Narrative Chance by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Hovedsageligt om de moderne, amerikanske, indianske forfattere N. Scott Momaday, LeslieMarmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, og: Gerald Vizenor.

Author : Lee Schweninger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820336374

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Listening to the Land by Lee Schweninger Pdf

For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Lee Schweninger considers a range of genres (memoirs, novels, stories, essays) by Native writers from various parts of the United States. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the “green” labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others. Taken together, the time periods covered inListening to the Landspan more than a hundred years, from Luther Standing Bear’s description of his late-nineteenth-century life on the prairie to Linda Hogan’s account of a 1999 Makah hunt of a gray whale. Two-thirds of the writers Schweninger considers, however, are well-known voices from the second half of the twentieth century, including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Vine Deloria Jr., Gerald Vizenor, and Louis Owens. Few ecocritical studies have focused on indigenous environmental attitudes, in comparison to related work done by historians and anthropologists.Listening to the Landwill narrow this gap in the scholarship; moreover, it will add individual Native American perspectives to an understanding of what, to these writers, is a genuine Native American philosophy regarding the land.

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440828744

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American Indian Culture [2 volumes] by Bruce E. Johansen Pdf

This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native culture, such as pow wows, Indian dancing, and tipi dwellings; Native art forms such as pottery, rock art, sandpainting, silverwork, tattooing, and totem poles; foods such as corn, frybread, and wild rice; and Native Americans in popular culture. The extensive introductory section, breadth of topics, accessibly written text, and range of perspectives from the many contributors make this work a must-have resource for high school and undergraduate audiences.

Author : Ann-Maureen Owens,Jane Yealland
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771381116

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Our Flag by Ann-Maureen Owens,Jane Yealland Pdf

The definitive guide to Canada's flag for young readers, Our Flag explores fun facts about the national banner and its provincial ones, as well as flags from around the world and throughout history. From the story behind the iconic maple leaf design to step-by-step instructions on making your own flag, this is a must-read for Canadian children.

Author : Elvira Pulitano
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803237375

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Toward a Native American Critical Theory by Elvira Pulitano Pdf

"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.

Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple,Alan Velie
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140575

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Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature by Jennifer McClinton-Temple,Alan Velie Pdf

Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803219021

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Survivance by Gerald Vizenor Pdf

In this anthology, eighteen scholars discuss the themes and practices of survivance in literature, examining the legacy of Vizenor's original insights and exploring the manifestations of survivance in a variety of contexts. Contributors interpret and compare the original writings of William Apess, Eric Gansworth, Louis Owens, Carter Revard, Gerald Vizenor, and Velma Wallis, among others.