American Indian Literature and the Southwest – Contexts and Dispositions

American Indian Literature and the SouthwestContexts and Dispositions\nAuthor(s): Eric Gary Anderson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292704886, 978-0292704886\nSynopsis\nCulture-to-culture encounters between \""natives\"" and \""aliens\"" have gone on for centuries in the American Southwest-among American Indian tribes, between American Indians and Euro-Americans, and even, according to some, between humans and extraterrestrials at Roswell, New Mexico. Drawing on a wide range of cultural productions including novels, films, paintings, comic strips, and historical studies, this groundbreaking book explores the Southwest as both a real and a culturally constructed site of migration and encounter, in which the very identities of \""alien\"" and \""native\"" shift with each act of travel.\n\nEric Anderson pursues his inquiry through an unprecedented range of cultural texts. These include the Roswell spacecr.