{"id":2513,"date":"2009-10-26T20:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:50:13","slug":"injun-joes-ghost-the-indian-mixed-blood-in-american-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Missouri Press<\/a>
\n2004
\nISBN 978-0-8262-1530-7
\n288 pages
\n6 x 9<\/p>\n

Harry J. Brown<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nDePauw University<\/em><\/p>\n

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What 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?\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n

In Injun Joe’s Ghost<\/em>, 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because 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<\/a>,” both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation.<\/p>\n

Injun Joe’s Ghost<\/em> 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, Injun Joe’s Ghost<\/em> will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What 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?\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,1196,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[2558,768,30,769],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-harry-brown","tag-harry-j-brown","tag-miscegenation","tag-university-of-missouri-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52803,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/52803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}