American Indian literature and the Southwest: contexts and dispositions

Introduction: Migration and displacement in the American Southwest.

1. Mobile homes: migration and resistance in American Indian literature.

2. Unsettling frontiers: Billy the Kid and the outlaw southwest.

3. Outlawing Apaches: Geronimo and Jason Betzinez.

4. Photography as resistance in "Almanac of the dead".

5. Indian detours, or, where the indians aren't: management and preservation in the Euro-American southwest.

6. Driven to extraction: McTeague in the desert.

7. Mary Austin, Sarah Winnemucca, and the problems of authority.

8. Cleaning out the house: Tom Outland, dead indians, and the First World War.

9. Krazy Kat I: contexts and crossings.

10. Krazy Kat II: Navajo aesthetics. Conclusion: Cross-purposes and purposeful crossings.