Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier (Recounters With Colonialism)

A provocative exploration of the intersections between postmodernism, postcolonialism, and the conceptual boundary known as the western frontier. 1. Postmodern Frontiers: Tales From A Ghost Town -- 2. Arctic Revelations: William T. Vollmann's The Rifles And The Real Of (self) Discovery -- 3. Dancing With The Dead: Ghost Dancing And Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac Of The Dead -- 4. Coyote, Contingency, And Community: Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water And Postmodern Trickster -- 5. Displaced Horizons: Sergio Leone's Man With No Name; Films And The Politics Of Postmodern Representation -- 6. Disruptive Genealogies: Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace And Native American Identities -- 7. In The Shadows Of The Crazies: The Omnipresent Father And Thomas Mcguane's Deadrock Novels -- 8. Coda -- Indians, Cowboys, Others Performing At The Borders Of Postmodernism. Carlton Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Exploring the cultural and literary borderlands between Native American, postcolonial, and postmodern theories of cultural representation, Carlton Smith explicates Frederick Jackson Turner's famous frontier thesis in terms of the repressed Other. Through readings of six important contemporary works by innovative writers, Smith provides rich insight into minority versions of the frontier.