American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions

239 Pages·1999·2.308 MB·English

by  Eric Gary Anderson

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American Indian Literature
and the Southwest
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Frontispiece.WalterFerguson(?),‘‘GeronimoattheWheel,’’1904.
CourtesyNationalArchives,Washington,D.C.,75-ic-1.
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American Indian Literature
and the Southwest
Contexts and Dispositions
Eric Gary Anderson
UniversityofTexasPress
Austin
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AmericanIndianliteratureandtheSouthwest:contextsand
dispositions/EricGaryAnderson.—1stUniversityofTexas
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p. cm.
Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. )andindex.
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1.Americanliterature—Indianauthors—Historyand
criticism. 2.IndiansofNorthAmerica—Southwestern
States—Intellectuallife. 3.Americanliterature—
SouthwesternStates—Historyandcriticism. 4.American
literature—Southwest,New—Historyandcriticism.
5.SouthwesternStates—Inliterature. 6.Southwest,New—
Inliterature. 7.Indiansinliterature. I.Title.
ps153.i52a49 1999
810.9(cid:3)897—dc21 98-24862
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Shelley
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Contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction.MigrationandDisplacementintheAmerican
Southwest 1
1. MobileHomes:MigrationandResistanceinAmerican
IndianLiterature 17
2. UnsettlingFrontiers:BillytheKidandtheOutlaw
Southwest 41
3. OutlawingApaches:GeronimoandJasonBetzinez 51
4. PhotographyasResistanceinAlmanacoftheDead 63
5. IndianDetours,or,WheretheIndiansAren’t:Management
andPreservationintheEuro-AmericanSouthwest 77
6. DriventoExtraction:McTeagueintheDesert 92
7. MaryAustin,SarahWinnemucca,andtheProblemsof
Authority 112
8. CleaningouttheHouse:TomOutland,DeadIndians,and
theFirstWorldWar 133
9. KrazyKatI:ContextsandCrossings 147
10. KrazyKatII:NavajoAesthetics 169
Conclusion.Cross-PurposesandPurposefulCrossings 187
Notes 197
WorksCited 207
Index 219
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Illustrations
1. TheDingbatFamily,26July1910.IgnatzMouse
beansKrazyKatforthefirsttime. 156–157
2. OriginaldrawingofKrazyKat,OffissaPupp,
IgnatzMouse,andfriends,c.1925. 158
3. KrazyKat,6January1918. 160–161
4. KrazyKat,22July1935. 160–161
5. KrazyKat,21September1921. 162–163
6. KrazyKat,5February1922. 164
7. KrazyKat,16April1922. 166
8. KrazyKat,11June1939. 167
9. KrazyKat,17August1920. 174–175
10. KrazyKat,3September1922. 176
11. KrazyKat,24September1922. 177
12. KrazyKat,25January1942. 179
13. KrazyKat,11June1922. 182
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