Böcker av Louis Owens

In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land.

In the hot, dry New Mexico wilderness, Will and Billy, two half-Cherokee ranchers, discover a corpse and a suitcase containing nearly a million dollars. As the two friends contemplate what to do with the money, they set into motion a series of events that will cost them more than they want to pay."Volume 41 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series"

This is a critical analysis of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors. It takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery, drawing upon a broad range of literary theory to analyze issues of marginalisation and cultural survival.

Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a grizzly bear and a painted Indian who offers bones in his hands come at a time when a young woman is washed ashore in 1993.