{"product_id":"american-indian-literature-and-the-southwest-contexts-and-dispositions-paperback","title":"American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Gary Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 239\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45307566030950,"sku":"9780292704886","price":68.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M09zbzI0d01zbmJnZTltdC9sb2Vhdz09.webp?v=1774129831","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/american-indian-literature-and-the-southwest-contexts-and-dispositions-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}