I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions

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University of Oklahoma Press, 2001 - 265 pages

In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.

In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility,love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. In a final section, Owens reflects on the work and theories of other writers, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Vizenor, Michael Dorris, and Louise Erdrich.

Volume 40 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

 

 

Table des matières

Finding Gene
3
Bracero Summer
16
Mushroom Nights
28
The Hunters Dance
40
In the Service of Forests
51
Ringtail Moon
64
My Criminal Youth
77
How Roland Barthes Saved Me from the indians
90
Coyote Story or the Birth of a Critic 149 1459
145
Yazoo Dusk
160
The Dancing Poodle of Arles
176
Winter Rain
182
Shelter
189
Native Sovenance and Survivance
227
A Story of a Talk My Own Private India
244
Notes
257

Clowns and Indians Poodles and DrumsDiscoveries in France
105
Roman Fervor or Travels in Hypercarnevale
117

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À propos de l'auteur (2001)

Louis Owens, who is of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent, is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of several books, including Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel and the novels The Sharpest Sight and Bone Game, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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