The Fus Fixico Letters

Posey, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0803237049 / ISBN 13: 9780803237049

Editore: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Codice articolo 16111795-6

Riassunto:

Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was the most accomplished Indian writer of his day and one of the most important in American history. A well-known lyric poet, journalist, and political humorist in the Creek Nation, his literary works excited admiration and envy beyond the Indian Territory and throughout the country. His most significant contribution to literature is the body of humorous articles now called The Fus Fixico Letters.

In 1902 in the Indian Journal, his newspaper, Posey introduced his most beloved persona, Fus Fixico (or, in English, “Heartless Bird”), an alleged conservative “Snake” Creek. Until Posey's death in 1908, Fixico retailed his conversations with his friends Hotgun and Toofpafka Micco, conveying their points of view about Indian politics, the prospects for an Indian state joining the Union, the irresponsibility of distant newspapers that reported on Indian events without stepping a foot from the road, and many other topics.

This collection is especially timely since very little is known or appreciated about American Indian literature prior to the 1960s. A labor of years, it has taken uncommon diligence to find and annotate the letters, some of which now exist in a single fragile copy of the Indian Journal. There are 72 letters in all.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Daniel Littlefield is the author of Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist. He is the director of the American Native Press Archives.

Professor A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff's foreword is a tribute to Carol Hunter, long a champion of Posey's writings, began work on this project until her life was cut short in 1987.

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Titolo: The Fus Fixico Letters
Casa editrice: University of Nebraska Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good