04516nam 2200673 a 450 991097056300332120241010190636.00-8262-6244-9(CKB)1000000000024269(OCoLC)70723008(CaPaEBR)ebrary10069595(SSID)ssj0000179370(PQKBManifestationID)11165252(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179370(PQKBWorkID)10137810(PQKB)10759729(MiAaPQ)EBC3570822(Au-PeEL)EBL3570822(CaPaEBR)ebr10069595(OCoLC)61363276(BIP)13176729(BIP)9684512(EXLCZ)99100000000002426920040218d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrInjun Joe's ghost the Indian mixed-blood in American writing /Harry J. Brown1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20041 online resource (283 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1530-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Miscegenation and Degeneracy in Antebellum Historical Romance -- 2 Homo Criminalis and Half-Breed Outlaws in the Dime Western -- 3 From Biological to Cultural Hybridity in Cogewea, Sundown, and Twentieth- Century Magazine Fiction -- Epilogue Contemporary Reflections on Mixed Descent -- Bibliography -- Index.What does it mean to be a "mixed-blood," and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native consciousness? In Injun Joe's Ghost, Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of "hybridity" from a biological to a cultural category. Brown traces the processes that once mandated the mixed-blood's exile as a grotesque or criminal outcast and that have recently brought about his ascendance as a cultural hero in contemporary Native American writing. Because the myth of the demise of the Indian and the ascendance of the Anglo-Saxon is traditionally tied to America's national idea, nationalist literature depicts Indian-white hybrids in images of degeneracy, atavism, madness, and even criminality. A competing tradition of popular writing, however, often created by mixed-blood writers themselves, contests these images of the outcast half-breed by envisioning "hybrid vigor," both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation. Injun Joe's Ghost focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression-era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twentieth-century "Native American Renaissance" from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, Injun Joe's Ghost will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies.American fictionHistory and criticismIndians in literatureMultiracial people in literatureGroup identity in literatureEthnicity in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Indians in literature.Multiracial people in literature.Group identity in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Race in literature.813/.00935290597Brown Harry J(Harry John),1972-858558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970563003321Injun Joe's ghost4381292UNINA