Off the reservation
Subtitle: reflections on boundary-busting border-crossing loose canons
By: Paula Gunn Allen.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Description: Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's political essays, literary criticism, and personal reflections.

In section one, "Haggles/gynosophies" (haggles being a persuasive speech in which a hag engages), Allen offers powerful critiques of the Western social constructs of proprietorship, literacy, individualism, and "rape culture" contrasted with the communal and spiritual connection to the earth that characterizes native societies. "Wyrds/orthographies" presents some of the best analysis of Native American literature of the late twentieth century, including the work of N.

Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Mary Tallmountain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-[252]) and index.