{"id":62552,"date":"2021-12-06T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62552"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:00:19","slug":"i-hear-the-train-reflections-inventions-refractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62552","title":{"rendered":"I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Oklahoma Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2001
\n282 pages
\n6 X 9
\n12 B&W Photos
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780806133546
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780806190143<\/p>\n

Louis Owens<\/a> (1948-2002)<\/strong>, Professor of English and Native American Studies
\nUniversity of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice\u2014humor, humility, love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California<\/a>. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory<\/a> and early Oklahoma<\/a>. In a final section, Owens reflects on the work and theories of other writers, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak<\/a>, Gerald Vizenor<\/a>, Michael Dorris<\/a>, and Louise Erdrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this innovative collection, Louis Owens blends autobiography, short fiction, and literary criticism to reflect on his experiences as a mixedblood Indian in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,1196,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[455,32607,16539,664,6645,32606,1777,1770],"class_list":["post-62552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-california","tag-gayatri-chakravorty-spivak","tag-gerald-vizenor","tag-louis-owens","tag-louise-erdrich","tag-michael-dorris","tag-oklahoma","tag-university-of-oklahoma-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62552","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=62552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62554,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62552\/revisions\/62554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}