American Indian Literature and the Southwest

Eric Gary Anderson is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University, where he teaches American and Native American literatures.

• Introduction. Migration and Displacement in the American SouthwestChapter One. Mobile Homes: Migration and Resistance in American Indian LiteratureChapter Two. Unsettling Frontiers: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw SouthwestChapter Three. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason BetzinezChapter Four. Photography as Resistance in Almanac of the DeadChapter Five. Indian Detours, or, Where the Indians Aren't: Management and Preservation in the Euro-American SouthwestChapter Six. Driven to Extraction: McTeague in the DesertChapter Seven. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the Problems of AuthorityChapter Eight. Cleaning out the House: Tom Outland, Dead Indians, and the First World WarChapter Nine. Krazy Kat I: Contexts and CrossingsChapter Ten. Krazy Kat II: Navajo AestheticsConclusion. Cross-Purposes and Purposeful Crossings

"I know of no other book that ranges as widely over the field of the 'Southwest,' understood as an aesthetic construct... At its best (which is almost always), Anderson's writing is lively, witty, engaging, provocative, readable." - Robert M. Nelson, Professor of English, University of Richmond