Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons

Allen, Paula Gunn

ISBN 10: 0807046418 / ISBN 13: 9780807046418

Published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1998

About this Item

262 pps. Titles: frt. & sp. Pg. 30 dog-eared. Interior leaves are clean and tight. The author follows the relationship between indigenous cultures and the larger external world. Using her own experience and that of other Native peoples, she looks for a link between the spiritual and environmental to the needs of the global community. This collection includes 19 essays with references and index. The author is a Laguna Pueblo Indian. Includes notes, references & index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons
• Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807046418
• ISBN 13: 9780807046418
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ

About this title

Synopsis

In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world. Through her own history and that of other Native peoples, she searches for a connection that will link the eco-spiritual and implicitly multicultural heritage to the demands of an increasingly global and culturally unilateral community.

About the Author

Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) was a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Native American of Laguna Pueblo and Sioux heritage. She authored many books, including The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Tradition, and was the editor of Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, which won an American Book Award in 1990.