Discerning Connections, Revising the Master Narrative, and Interrogating Identity in Louis Owens's The Sharpest Sight.

Novels by the Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer and scholar Louis Owens articulate mixedblood identity and its confrontations with dominant white society. Narratives of social dominance become "official" versions of truth, often contradicting what Native people know is real and destroying fundamental cycles of life. Once this conflict is understood, Owens wants his readers to act for change.

Non-Native and Native scholars of Native American literature, many of the latter themselves contributors to the growing body of that literature, have consistently recognized the importance of ...

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