American Indian Literature and the Southwest

<p>Culture-to-culture encounters between natives and aliens have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest-among American Indian tribes between American Indians and Euro-Americans and even according to some between humans and extraterrestrials at Roswell New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range of cultural productions including novels films paintings comic strips and historical studies this 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.</p> <p>Eric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecraft myths Leslie Marmon Silko's <i>Almanac of the Dead</i> Wendy Rose's poetry the outlaw narratives of Billy the Kid Apache autobiographies by Geronimo and Jason Betzinez paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe New West history by Patricia Nelson Limerick Frank Norris' <i>McTeague</i> Mary Austin's <i>The Land of Little Rain</i> Sarah Winnemucca's <i>Life Among the Piutes</i> Willa Cather's <i>The Professor's House</i> George Herriman's modernist comic strip <i>Krazy Kat</i> and A. A. Carr's Navajo-vampire novel <i>Eye Killers</i>.</p>