LEADER 04516nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910970563003321 005 20241010190636.0 010 $a0-8262-6244-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000024269 035 $a(OCoLC)70723008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10069595 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165252 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137810 035 $a(PQKB)10759729 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570822 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570822 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10069595 035 $a(OCoLC)61363276 035 $a(BIP)13176729 035 $a(BIP)9684512 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000024269 100 $a20040218d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInjun Joe's ghost $ethe Indian mixed-blood in American writing /$fHarry J. Brown 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8262-1530-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aMultiracial people in literature 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 10$aMultiracial people in literature. 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813/.00935290597 700 $aBrown$b Harry J$g(Harry John),$f1972-$0858558 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970563003321 996 $aInjun Joe's ghost$94381292 997 $aUNINA