I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780806133546)

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

In sophisticated prose, Owens reveals the many timbres of his voice--humor, humility, love, joy, struggle, confusion, and clarity. We join him in the fields, farms, and ranches of California. We follow his search for a lost brother and contemplate along with him old family photographs from Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. In a final section, Owens reflects on the work and theories of other writers, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Vizenor, Michael Dorris, and Louise Erdrich.

Volume 40 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

Author: Louis Owens
ISBN-10: 0806133546
ISBN-13: 9780806133546
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2001
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.62w x 0.96d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2001 pg. 180
Library Journal 10/01/2001 pg. 98
Multicultural Review 06/01/2002 pg. 75
Choice 02/01/2002 pg. 1050