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Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645401407
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Tay-Bodal
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645401413
"Another great storyteller is emerging."-Tony Hillerman Award-winning authorMardi Oakley Medawar In 1866 the Kiowas return to their traditional winter camp at Palo Duro Canyon for the first time in two years. But when a powerful healer winds up missing and two horses are found killed, the camp is convinced it is the work of a shapeshifter...While the camp searches for the witch among them, Tay-bodal begins his own investigation. Anxious to find his missing friend and sure that there is no supernatural cause behind these events, Tay-bodal must uncover the truth before fear destroys the bonds that unite the Kiowa Band.... "Medawar really captives the personalitiesof the individuals in her story, as wellas the culture itself, with understanding andlow-key Indian humor. She does for the Kiowa culturewhat Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho."-Don Coldsmith, author of Tallgrass and the Spanish Bit saga "Medawar, a Cherokee, reveals legendaryNative Americans as believable peopleand offers her readers a comprehensive lookat historical Kiowa life and values."-Publishers Weekly
Author : Gina Macdonald,Andrew F. Macdonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313075063
Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work. Shaman or Sherlock explores depictions created by Native American authors themselves, as well as those created by outsiders with mainstream agendas. The most successful of these writers fuse authentic Native American culture with standard genre conventions, thus providing an appealing, empathetic view of little-understood or underappreciated groups, as well as insight into issues of cross-cultural communication. Dealing with such significant concepts as acculturation, regional diversity, and assimilation, this unique study evaluates over 200 detective stories. Though the crime novel began in Europe as a manifestation of Enlightenment rationality and scientific methodology, the Native American detective story moves into the realm of the spiritual and intuitive, often incorporating depictions of non-material phenomena. Shaman or Sherlock? explores how geographical and tribal differences, degrees of assimilation, and the evolution of age-old cultural patterns shape the Native American detective story.
Author : Ray B. Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299196141
In Murder on the Reservation, Ray B. Browne surveys the work of several of the best-known writers of crime fiction involving Indian characters and references virtually every book that qualifies as an Indian-related mystery. Browne believes that within the genre of crime fiction all people are equal, and the increasing role of Indian characters in criminal fiction proves what an important role this genre plays as a powerful democratizing force in American society. He endeavors to both analyze and evaluate the individual work of the authors, and at the same time, provide a commentary on the various attitudes towards race relations in the United States that each author presents. Some Indian fiction is intended to right the wrongs the authors feel have been leveled against Indians. Other authors use Indian lore and Indian locales as exotic elements and locations for the entertaining and commercially successful stories they want to write. Browne’s analysis includes authors and works of all backgrounds, with mysteries of first-class murder both on and off the reservation.
Author : Robert Westbrook
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645400080
Alone on a wilderness trek in the New Mexico mountains, Lakota P.I. Howard Moon Deer meets a barefoot, half-crazed astrophysicist who claims he’s been abducted by a flying saucer and has just returned from the planet Klizmor in possession of an illusive equation from their advanced civilization: the Theory of Everything. Is he a madman or part of a clever fraud? He’s not just anyone, Howie soon discovers. He’s Dr. Grisha Bloom, a famous Nobel Prize winning physicist, and when he’s murdered Howie finds himself immersed in a dangerous world of UFO conspiracies, military secrets, and a group of cutthroat astronomers who are competing to claim credit for the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the Blue Moon Quark. BLUE MOON, the 6th Howard Moon Deer mystery, takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the dark side of New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb, where science and fakery converge, and huge government contracts dangle for those brilliant enough—or ruthless enough—to reach for the stars. "Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."—Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time "Westbrook...possesses a masterful sense of narration."—The Washington Post Book World "A racy and readable writer."—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313089336
This publication will fill a gap in the bibliographic reference shelf by identifying historical novels for both adult and young adult readers. ^IAmerican Historical Fiction^R contains over 3,000 titles set in states and historical regions of the United States. Entries are organized by time period. The newest titles, as well as old favorites, are covered. The volume is indexed by author, title, genre, subject, and geographic setting.
Author : Mary Stoecklein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498585781
This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples.
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781645406167
Mardi Oakley Medawar does for the Kiowa what Tony Hillerman has done for the Navaho.” —Don Goldsmith Award-winning author Mardi Oakley Medawar In 1868, following the signing of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, things are not going well for the Kiowa. When the Indian agent once again fails to live up to his promises, he is run off by the Kiowa. Tay-bodal—a healer and member of the Rattle Band—is enduring a personal crisis, and is therefore not in the best frame of mind when he is called to investigate a murder among the bands. The son of another chief, has been murdered. The one accused of killing him is the same man who has stolen Tay-bodal's wife. Unless Tay-bodal can put aside his own dislike and prove the accused innocent—and quickly—there will be war, tearing apart the Kiowa Nation. “In her debut novel, Death at Rainy Mountain, Mardi Oakley Medawar proved a Cherokee can bring the Kiowa of another epoch alive for us.” —Tony Hillerman “Recommended for its setting . . . strong mystery. . .and a moving ending that captures the passing of friendships and Kiowa society.” —Booklist “Native American traditions, culture, and intelligence lend the whole a meaty authenticity, tempered by Tay-bodal’s pragmatism and overweening compassion. A fine work; strongly recommended.” —Library Journal Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers—Writer of the Year Award
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612327716
A sweeping novel of the Native American experience as seen by a powerful and controversial member of the Osage nation. C.R. Jones was one of the wealthiest men in Oklahoma. A full-blooded Osage Indian, he'd parlayed the black gold of oil into a position of unassailable power. But behind the success lay a long and tumultuous past: the scrawny kid with a gun who'd ridden with outlaws and avenged his father's brutal murder; the passionate teen who'd pledged his undying love to the one woman he could never have; the driven tycoon who'd made enemies as fast as he made money. Everett Jakomin was the son of one of those enemies. A small-town storekeeper, he hated and feared C.R., until he unexpectedly found himself the keeper of C.R.'s legacy. And as Everett soon discovered, only by learning C.R.'s remarkable story would he ever know the truth about himself. Filled with the color and spirit of Oklahoma history—from the life and lore of the Osage nation to the hardscrabble frontier days of marauding outlaws to the prosperity of the 1950s—here is the stirring tale of two very different men linked by a fierce pride and a tragic secret.
Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple,Alan Velie
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140575
Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.
Author : James H. Cox
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806185460
Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities, and surviving. In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism. By examining novels by Native authors—especially Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Alexie—Cox shows how these writers challenge and revise colonizers’ tales about Indians. He then offers “red readings” of some revered Euro-American novels, including Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and shows that until quite recently, even those non-Native storytellers who sympathized with Indians could imagine only their vanishing by story’s end. Muting White Noise breaks new ground in literary criticism. It stands with Native authors in their struggle to reclaim their own narrative space and tell stories that empower and nurture, rather than undermine and erase, American Indians and their communities.
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645405849
“Another great storyteller is emerging.”—Tony Hillerman Award-winning author Mardi Oakley Medawar In 1867, the Kiowa travel to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, along with the Comanche, Arapaho, Apache, and Cheyenne to meet with representatives of the U.S. government and to sign peace treaties. But not all of the Kiowa agree that the peace treaty is a good thing, and tensions between them and the U.S. Army ("The Blue Jackets") are running high. So, when the army bugler disappears and White Bear, chief of the Rattle Band, finds his bugle out on the plains, the army command assumes that White Bear has killed the man to steal it. To make matters worse, the bugler's body is later found—murdered—out on the plains. With the army set to try White Bear for murder, and the Kiowa set to declare war if he is not found innocent, Tay—a healer amongst the Kiowa—is charged by the Principal Chief to investigate and clear White Bear's name. With very little time before an army tribunal is to be held, Tay-bodal must find out the truth about the bugler—a man he doesn't know—and what might have actually happened out there on the plains. "Medawar, a Cherokee, reveals legendary Native Americans as believable people and offers her readers a comprehensive look at historical Kiowa life and values."—Publishers Weekly "Her characters, white or Indian, are people...This is our history."—Don Coldsmith, award-winning author of Runestone
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645403142
Author of THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERT a.k.a People of the Whistling Waters Henrytown, Louisiana… It’s barely on the map. It wasn’t until 1962 that it was even considered a viable speed-trap. And yet… In 1934 Georgia aristocrat Aaron Brooks graduated from the Atlanta Seminary. The son of a wealthy family, surely Aaron wouldn’t actually accept the pastorate of some backwater Louisiana town, especially in the height of the Great Depression. And yet…Aaron boarded the train… The people of Henrytown were struck by his startling good looks and gracious manner. The consensus was that he was too pretty and too helpless to survive inside a hardscrabble town. But when they heard him preach, they stopped praying for a new pastor. Henrytown and its people, in all their varied and wondrous forms, gradually became Aaron’s family. His life was rich and content. But then it radically changed in 1941 when America was thrust into WWII. American service men and women needed chaplains. Aaron boarded a train, but this time he was leaving behind his adored wife and children, and the many treasured souls of Henrytown, Louisiana.
Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Author : Ray Broadus Browne,Pat Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879728213
"To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within the humanities with the publication of The Guide to United States Popular Culture. With its nearly 1600 entries, it promises to be the most comprehensive single-volume source of information about popular culture. The range of subjects and diversity of opinions represented will make this an almost indispensable resource for humanities and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts alike."--Timothy E. Scheurer, President, American Culture Association "The popular culture of the United States is as free-wheeling and complex as the society it animates. To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations."--Marshall W. Fishwick, Past President, Popular Culture Association Features of The Guide to United States Popular Culture: 1,010 pages 1,600 entries 500 contributors Alphabetic entries Entries range from general topics (golf, film) to specific individuals, items, and events Articles are supplemented by bibliographies and cross references Comprehensive index