Coyote Kills John Wayne

by Smith, Carlton

• ISBN13: 9781584650201
• ISBN10: 1584650206
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Dartmouth College

Summary

Exploring the cultural and literary borderlands between Native American, postcolonial, and postmodern theories of cultural representation, Carlton Smith explicates Frederick Jackson Turner's famous frontier thesis in terms of the repressed Other. Through readings of six important contemporary works by innovative writers, Smith provides rich insight into "minority" versions of the frontier.

Author Biography

CARLTON SMITH, Assistant Professor of Literature at Palomar College in California, also teaches at the Pauma Reservation Educational Center.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Postmodern Frontiers: Tales from a Ghost Town	1	(20)
Arctic Revelations: William T. Vollmann's The Rifles and the Real of (Self) Discovery	21	(18)
Dancing with the Dead: Ghost Dancing and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead	39	(19)
Coyote, Contingency, and Community: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Postmodern Trickster	58	(21)
Displaced Horizons: Sergio Leone's Man With No Name; Films and the Politics of Postmodern Representation	79	(23)
Disruptive Genealogies: Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace and Native American Identities	102	(22)
In the Shadows of the Crazies: The Omnipresent Father and Thomas McGuane's Deadrock Novels	124	(26)
Coda---Indians, Cowboys, Others: Performing at the Borders of Postmodernism	150	(9)
Index	159