Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns: The Novels of Louis Owensvolume 43 Tapa dura - 2002

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Hardcover, [xiii], 220 pages. As New condition in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First printing. Size 8.75"x5.75". "Who am I? What am I? Where do I belong? These 'grave concerns' take a lifetime for most people to answer. They become even trickier for American Indians, who all too often face literal and figurative burial by those in power. Such concerns permeate the works of Louis Owens, a mixedblood writer of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent. Chris LaLonde analyses five of Louis Owens's critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, The Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. 1st Edition. As New/Dust Jacket Included.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused virtually new copy. THIS BOOK IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY..

Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 1st Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. New/New. Volume itself has crimson covers with gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart jacket. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. 220 pages. This is Volume 43 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. A very nice copy.

Hardback. New. Who am I? What am I? Where do I belong? These "grave concerns" take a lifetime for most people to answer. They become even trickier for American Indians, who all too often face literal and figurative burial by those in power. Such concerns permeate the works of Louis Owens, a mixedblood writer of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent. In this first book-length examination of Owens's writings, Chris LaLonde focuses on five critically acclaimed novels The Sharpest Sight, Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River. According to LaLonde, Owens works his stories like a trickster, turning ideas back against themselves and playing with contradictory possibilities. The conflicting Native and Western perspectives of time, history, humor, and authority dramatize hoe such classes can threaten to undermine any sense of home and identity for Indians. In the process, Owens underscores the sham of the ethnic identities foisted upon American Indians-the Noble Savage, the Silent… Leer más

University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 2002-05. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hardcover. new. Chris LaLonde analyses five of Louis Owenss critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, The Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

University of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover. New. 8x5x0.