Searching for Yellowstone : race, gender, family, and memory in the postmodern West / Norman K. Denzin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denzin, Norman K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--History.

Indians of North America.

Sex role--West (U.S.)--History.

Sex role.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--West (U.S.)--History.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Families--West (U.S.)--History.

Families.

Memory--Social aspects--West (U.S.)--History.

Memory.

Indians of North America--Yellowstone National Park--History.

Historical reenactments--Yellowstone National Park.

Historical reenactments.

West (U.S.)--Race relations.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Social conditions.

Yellowstone National Park--In popular culture.

Yellowstone National Park.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven work. Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part art criticism, part cultural theory, Denzin creates a postmodern bricolage of images, staged dramas, quotations, reminiscences and stories that strike to the essence of the American dream and the shattered dreams of the peoples it subjugate

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Photo Montage 1: Mythic Native Americans and the New/Old West; 1. Searching for Yellowstone I; 2. Indians and Cowboys; 3. Indians in the Park; 4. Remembering to Forget: Lewis and Clark and Native Americans in Yellowstone; Photo Montage 2: Yellowstone Park and Lewis and Clark, Circa 2006; 5. Sacagawea's Nickname, or The Sacagawea Problem; 6. Drawn to Yellowstone I: Jay Cooke's Railroad and Thomas Moran's ""Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone""; 7. Drawn to Yellowstone II: Crazy Mule's Map, Geysers, Coca-Cola, and Other Franments; 8. Retire the Chief, Keep the Indians

Photo Montage 3: The New West, Memory, and the Author's Family9. Searching for Yellowstone II and Alicia's Horses; 10. Coda; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Ind.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42035-X

1-315-42036-8

1-315-42037-6

1-59874-654-5

9781315420370

OCLC:

595542491