Overview

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn't like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge ponders Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.

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Author:   Tiffany Midge ,  Geary Hobson
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9781496215574

ISBN 10:   1496215575
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   01 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Geary Hobson     Part I: My Origin Story Is a Cross between “Call Me Ishmael,” a Few Too Many Whiskey Sours Packed in an Old Thermos at the Drive-In Double Feature, and That Little Voice That Says, “You Got This” Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s     Headlines     Part II: Instead of a “Raised by Wolves” T-Shirt, Mine Says “Raised by Functioning Alcoholics with Intimacy Phobias & Low Self-Esteem” The Jimmy Report     My Name Is Moonbeam McSwine     The Siam Sequences     Part III: Micro (Aggression) Memoirs First World (Story) Problems: Brown Girl Multiple Choice Edition     Tweets as Assigned Texts for Native American Studies Course     Ghoul, Interrupted     Part IV: Garsh Durn It! You Say Patriarchy, I Say Patri-Malarkey, Dollars to Donuts Cuckoo Banana Pants, You Gals & Your Lady Power This ’n’ That An Open Letter to White Women Concerning The Handmaid’s Tale and America’s Historical Amnesia     Fertility Rites     Wonder Woman Hits Theaters, Smashes Patriarchy     Jame Gumb, Hero and Pioneer of the Fat-Positivity Movement     Post-Election Message to the 53 Percent     Committee of Barnyard Swine to Determine Fate for Women’s Health     Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and under Certain Conditions)      An Open Letter to White Girls Regarding Pumpkin Spice and Cultural Appropriation     Part V: Me, Cutting in Front of All the People in All of the Lines Forever: “It’s Okay, I Literally Was Here First” #DecolonizedAF Thousands of Jingle Dress Dancers Magically Appear at Standing Rock Protector Site     Satire Article Goes Viral on Day of 2016 Presidential Election Results     Attack of the Fifty-Foot (Lakota) Woman     Minnesota Art Gallery to Demolish “Indian Uprisings” Exhibit after Caucasian Community Protest     Why I Don’t Like “Pussy” Hats     Li-Li-Li-Li-Land, Standing Rock the Musical!      Part VI: Merciless Indian Savages? Try Merciless Indian Fabulous! Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series     Fifty Shades of Buckskin     Conversations with My Lakota Mom     Feast Smudge Snag     Eight Types of Native Moms     Part VII: “Shill the Pretendian, Unfav the Genuine” Is the 2018 Remix of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” Red like Me: I Knew Rachel Dolezal Back When She Was Indigenous     A List of Alternative Identities to Try for Fun and Profit     I Have White Bread Privilege     Things Pseudo-Native Authors Have Claimed to Be but Actually Are Not     You Might Be a Pretendian     Part VIII: I Watched Woman Walks Ahead and Frankly Was Offended by the Cookie-Cutter, Stereotypical Portrayal of the Menacing White Soldier Reel Indians Don’t Eat Quiche: The Fight for Authentic Roles in Hollywood     Are You There, Christmas? It’s Me, Carol!     Post-Election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition     West Wing World     Part IX: The Native Americans Used EVERY Part of the Sacred Turkey Hey America, I’m Taking Back Thanksgiving     Clown Costumes Banned, Racist Native American Halloween Costumes Still Okay     Thanksgiving Shopping at Costco: I Just Can’t Even     Politically Correct Alternatives to Culturally Insensitive Halloween Costumes     Part X: BREAKING NEWS—Your Neighbor Who Said, “Whoa, Dude, This Whole Trump Thing’s, Like, So Fricken Surreal,” Might Actually Be on to Something Step Right Up, Folks     Trump Pardons Zombie Apocalypse     There’s Something about Andrew Jackson     Trump Administration to Repeal Bison as First National Mammal     President Trump Scheduled for Whirlwind Tour to Desecrate World’s Treasures     Part XI: The Trump Administration’s Pop-Up, Coloring, Scratch ’n’ Sniff, Edible, and Radioactive Activity Book You’ve Got Mail!     Executive Order Requiring All Americans Take Up Cigarettes by End of 2017     The Wild West (Wing) and Wild Bill Hiccup     Give a Chump a Chance     Ars Poetica by Donald J. Trump     Acknowledgments    

Reviews

Tiffany Midge is a gift, a literary comedic genius. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is chock-full of savagely clever and spot-on riffs about Native life combined with keen observations of the absurdities of pop culture. Where else can one find discussion of the use of `ugh' in American literature or of Anne Coulter and Delores Abernathy as judges in the post-election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition? Adroit, snarly, essential, and inspiring. She knows our truths, so there is no use in hiding. Midge is among the very best indigenous writers. More, please. -Devon Mihesuah, author of Ned Christie; Choctaw Crime and Punishment; and Indigenous American Women -- Devon Mihesuah Tiffany Midge is the kind of funny that can make the same joke funny over and over again. Which means, of course, that she is wicked smart, and sly, and that she has her hand on the pulse of the culture in a Roxane Gay-ish way, only funnier, and that she has our number, your number, and my number too, all of our numbers. Which means she is our teacher, if we let her be. -Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country -- Pam Houston Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism. It is perhaps the funniest nonfiction collection I have ever read. But it is much more than funny: it is moving, honest, and painful as well, and looks at the absurdities of modern America. Midge's collection is so good it could raise Iron Eyes Cody from the grave and make him laugh till he cries. -David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee -- David Treuer Midge is a wry, astute charmer with an eye for detail and an ear for the scruffy rhythms of American lingo. -Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States -- Sarah Vowell

Tiffany Midge is a gift, a literary comedic genius. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is chock full of savagely clever and spot-on riffs about Native life combined with keen observations of the absurdities of pop culture. Where else can one find discussion of the use of `ugh' in American literature or of Anne Coulter and Delores Abernathy as judges in the post-election U.S. Open in Racist Tirades Competition? Adroit, snarly, essential, and inspiring. She knows our truths, so there is no use in hiding. Midge is among the very best indigenous writers. More, please. -Devon Mihesuah, author of Ned Christie; Choctaw Crime and Punishment; and Indigenous American Women -- Devon Mihesuah Tiffany Midge is the kind of funny that can make the same joke funny over and over again. Which means, of course, that she is wicked smart, and sly, and that she has her hand on the pulse of the culture in a Roxane Gay-ish way, only funnier, and that she has our number, your number, and my number too, all of our numbers. Which means she is our teacher, if we let her be. -Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country -- Pam Houston Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism. It is perhaps the funniest nonfiction collection I have ever read. But it is much more than funny: it is moving, honest, and painful as well, and looks at the absurdities of modern America. Midge's collection is so good it could raise Iron Eyes Cody from the grave and make him laugh till he cries. -David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee -- David Treuer Midge is a wry, astute charmer with an eye for detail and an ear for the scruffy rhythms of American lingo. -Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States -- Sarah Vowell

Author Information

Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and was raised in the Pacific Northwest. She is a former columnist for Indian Country Today and taught writing and composition for Northwest Indian College. Midge’s award-winning books include The Woman Who Married a Bear and Outlaws, Renegades, and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed. She resides in Moscow, Idaho, where she has served as the city’s poet laureate. Geary Hobson is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last of the Ofos.

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