Craig S Womack
Biographic Data
| ID | 762803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig S Womack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig S |
| FAMILY NAME | Womack |
| SIGNATURE | WOMACK C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen
Among the many important arguments in his 1972 book, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Dakota legal scholar and philosopher Vine Deloria, Jr. posits a race of spacemen who created human society. Womack argues that contemporary scholars of Native literatures have overlooked these kinds of “kooky” claims in Deloria’s work. In God Is Red, Deloria’s discussion of aliens gives the book a campy and theatrical feel. Womack emphasizes, however, that…
There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal
There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal Craig Womack (bio) There was nothing good or clean about the last shot I fired at a doe. We had hunted the foothills the day before on the eastern slopes of the Rockies in southern Alberta. On a hilly bluff it was so windy that we'd laid our rifles down on the ground and leaped giddily in the air, coming down to earth in front of our selves—I thought of Neil Armstrong bouncing around on the moon. When …
Suspicioning
Suspicioning" examines the silences that surround issues of same-sex desire in and out of the poetry of Joy Harjo
Anti-Indianism in Modern America
Red on Red
A Creek National Literature attempts to find a critical vantage point grounded in Native culture from which to understand Native literatures. He argues that the application of postmodern literary criticism to Native literatures does not provide a critical framework which is particularly useful to Indian people because it fails to understand anything about the primary cultures from which these literatures emerge. Recent Native critics like Robert …
Indi'n Humor
Hici
The Spirit of Independence
of the Six Nations, published in 1848. Cusick "turned back to the blanket" after becoming disillusioned with Christianity, as did the Huron convert Peter Dooyentate Clarke, a
Mud Woman
Red on Red
A Creek National Literature attempts to find a critical vantage point grounded in Native culture from which to understand Native literatures. He argues that the application of postmodern literary criticism to Native literatures does not provide a critical framework which is particularly useful to Indian people because it fails to understand anything about the primary cultures from which these literatures emerge. Recent Native critics like Robert …
Mud Woman
Indi'n Humor
Hici
The Spirit of Independence
of the Six Nations, published in 1848. Cusick "turned back to the blanket" after becoming disillusioned with Christianity, as did the Huron convert Peter Dooyentate Clarke, a
Red on Red
A Creek National Literature attempts to find a critical vantage point grounded in Native culture from which to understand Native literatures. He argues that the application of postmodern literary criticism to Native literatures does not provide a critical framework which is particularly useful to Indian people because it fails to understand anything about the primary cultures from which these literatures emerge. Recent Native critics like Robert …
Anti-Indianism in Modern America
Suspicioning
Suspicioning" examines the silences that surround issues of same-sex desire in and out of the poetry of Joy Harjo
There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal
There Is No Respectful Way to Kill an Animal Craig Womack (bio) There was nothing good or clean about the last shot I fired at a doe. We had hunted the foothills the day before on the eastern slopes of the Rockies in southern Alberta. On a hilly bluff it was so windy that we'd laid our rifles down on the ground and leaped giddily in the air, coming down to earth in front of our selves—I thought of Neil Armstrong bouncing around on the moon. When …
Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen
Among the many important arguments in his 1972 book, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Dakota legal scholar and philosopher Vine Deloria, Jr. posits a race of spacemen who created human society. Womack argues that contemporary scholars of Native literatures have overlooked these kinds of “kooky” claims in Deloria’s work. In God Is Red, Deloria’s discussion of aliens gives the book a campy and theatrical feel. Womack emphasizes, however, that…
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