Bees in Transit (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Hogan
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Native Americans or American Indians, Oklahoma, Land settlement, Bees
“Bees in Transit: Osage County” reflects Hogan's interest in the so-called Osage murders, which were researched by the Osage scholar Carol Hunter. Hogan based her first novel, Mean Spirit (1990), on this work. The novel is set in Oklahoma during the 1920's, soon after the discovery of oil on the allotment lands of the Osage people, and provides a fictionalized account of the lives of Osage landowners who were murdered, most probably for their oil rights. By the novel's end, the Osage people were abandoning their former town life and the white world, leaving behind the...
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