The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
Article number: | MIFFLIN BT |
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About the Author
Margot Mifflin is the author of Looking for Miss America, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, and The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman. She has written for publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker. Find out more at margotmifflin.com.
Reviews
"An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America." —Times Literary Supplement
"An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down." —Christian Science Monitor
"In The Blue Tattoo, Margot Mifflin slices away the decades of mythology and puts the story in its proper historical context. What emerges is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a young woman—a survivor, but someone marked for life by the experience." —Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly
"An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down." —Christian Science Monitor
"In The Blue Tattoo, Margot Mifflin slices away the decades of mythology and puts the story in its proper historical context. What emerges is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a young woman—a survivor, but someone marked for life by the experience." —Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly
“Mifflin’s treatment of Olive’s sojourns [provides] an excellent teaching opportunity about America’s ongoing captivation with ethnic/gender crossings.” —Western American Literature
“Although Oatman’s story on its own is full of intrigue, Mifflin adeptly uses her tale as a springboard for larger issues of the time.” —Feminist Review
“Although Oatman’s story on its own is full of intrigue, Mifflin adeptly uses her tale as a springboard for larger issues of the time.” —Feminist Review
“Mifflin engagingly describes Oatman’s ordeal and theorizes about its impact on Oatman herself as well as on popular imagination…. Her book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her. Recommended for general readers as well as students and scholars.” —Library Journal