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Author Allen, Paula Gunn.

Title Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons / Paula Gunn Allen.

Imprint Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  814.54 Al54o 1998    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-[252]) and index.
Contents Introduction: "Don't fence me in" -- Notes toward a human revolution -- The savages in the mirror: phantoms and fantasies in America -- All the good Indians -- American Indian mysticism -- Haggles: where is one circle...? -- Some underlying values: autonomy and vulnerability -- "Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal Holocausts -- Radiant beings -- The woman I love is a planet; the planet I love is a tree -- Here there be coyote -- Looking back: ethnics in the Western formalist situation -- Who's telling this story, anyway? -- Thus spake Pocahontas -- The autobiography of a confluence -- Yo cruzo siete mares -- My Lebanon -- Going home, December 1992 -- The lay of the land: Geospiritual narratives and the American Southwest.
Subject Indians of North America -- Religion.
ISBN 080704640X (cloth : acid-free paper) : $25.00
9780807046401 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 1588524
YDXCP 1512563
NZ1 1129704
AU@ 000013858405

 
    
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