{"product_id":"9780826215307","title":"Injun Joe's Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native consciousness?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInjun Joe’s Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of “hybridity” from a biological to a cultural category. Brown traces the processes that once mandated the mixed-blood’s exile as a grotesque or criminal outcast and that have recently brought about his ascendance as a cultural hero in contemporary Native American writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the myth of the demise of the Indian and the ascendance of the Anglo-Saxon is traditionally tied to America’s national idea, nationalist literature depicts Indian-white hybrids in images of degeneracy, atavism, madness, and even criminality. A competing tradition of popular writing, however, often created by mixed-blood writers themselves, contests these images of the outcast half-breed by envisioning “hybrid vigor,” both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInjun Joe’s Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression-era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twentieth-century “Native American Renaissance” from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, \u003ci\u003eInjun Joe’s Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018028204272,"sku":"9780826215307","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826215307_p0.jpg?v=1763756408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826215307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}