Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons / Paula Gunn Alle...
Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons / Paula Gunn Alle...
Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons / Paula Gunn Allen.
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Publisher
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N814.54/A428.5/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: "Don't Fence Me In," -- 1. Notes Toward a Human Revolution -- 2. The Savages in the Mirror: Phantoms and Fantasies in America -- 3. All the Good Indians -- 4. American Indian Mysticism -- 5. Haggles: Where Is One Circle ...? Some Underlying Values: Autonomy and Vulnerability -- 6. Fath...
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Publisher
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's political essays, literary criticism, and personal reflections. In section one, "Haggles/gynosophies" (haggles being a persuasive speech in which a hag engages), Allen offers powerful critiques of the Western social constructs of proprietorship, literacy, individualism, and "rape culture" contrasted...
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Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons / Paula Gunn Allen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-[252]) and index.
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N814.54/A428.5/1
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74Vvre4b0OBO
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ISBN
080704640X (cloth : acid-free paper) :
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814.54
MMS ID
991011486159702626
