Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"I know of no other book that ranges as widely over the field of the 'Southwest,' understood as an aesthetic construct... At its best (which is almost always), Anderson's writing is lively, witty, engaging, provocative, readable." - Robert M. Nelson, Professor of English, University of Richmond
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Migration and Displacement in the American Southwest
- Chapter One. Mobile Homes: Migration and Resistance in American Indian Literature
- Chapter Two. Unsettling Frontiers: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw Southwest
- Chapter Three. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason Betzinez
- Chapter Four. Photography as Resistance in Almanac of the Dead
- Chapter Five. Indian Detours, or, Where the Indians Aren't: Management and Preservation in the Euro-American Southwest
- Chapter Six. Driven to Extraction: McTeague in the Desert
- Chapter Seven. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the Problems of Authority
- Chapter Eight. Cleaning out the House: Tom Outland, Dead Indians, and the First World War
- Chapter Nine. Krazy Kat I: Contexts and Crossings
- Chapter Ten. Krazy Kat II: Navajo Aesthetics
- Conclusion. Cross-Purposes and Purposeful Crossings
