Off the reservation : reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons

Allen, Paula Gunn. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 080704640X (cloth : acid-free paper) :
ISBN: 9780807046401 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
262 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-[252]) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: "Don't fence me in" -- Notes toward a human revolution -- The savages in the mirror: phantoms and fantasies in America -- All the good Indians -- American Indian mysticism -- Haggles: where is one circle...? -- Some underlying values: autonomy and vulnerability -- "Indians," solipsisms, and archetypal Holocausts -- Radiant beings -- The woman I love is a planet; the planet I love is a tree -- Here there be coyote -- Looking back: ethnics in the Western formalist situation -- Who's telling this story, anyway? -- Thus spake Pocahontas -- The autobiography of a confluence -- Yo cruzo siete mares -- My Lebanon -- Going home, December 1992 -- The lay of the land: Geospiritual narratives and the American Southwest.