Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
Description
Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 139-141
Description
Book reviews of:
Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor.
Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing by Simon Ortiz.
Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 139 to read reviews.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
Description
Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 361-372
Description
Author explores the tropes of exoticism contained in Fergusson’s novel Dancing Gods, situates Fergusson’s writing within the genre, and relates it to similar works by other writers within the genre.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 75-81
Description
Illustrates the new character tropes being developed by Aboriginal Australian writers to challenge the stereotypical representation of Indigenous peoples in detective fiction.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 409-422
Description
Author examines different frameworks and themes related to mixed ethnicities/identities and considers how these factors might motivate an author to create mixed characters.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 137-154
Description
Literary criticism piece which argues that Indigenous authors Linda Hogan and Tom Holm make use of the mystery fiction genre to present Indigenous narratives about the historic Osage oil murders, thereby allowing them a wide breadth of exposure.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 53-61
Description
Author works to articulate a strategy for the introduction and study of Indigenous text in the post-secondary classroom. Focuses on identifying a text as an “Indigenous text,” diversity of authors, cultural elements of the texts.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 129-152
Description
Article offers artistic/literary criticism of Simpson’s video poem; discusses new possibilities for human relationships with our more-than-human relations, and calls on settlers to take up “intergenerational responsibility” for settler colonial violence.