Margot S. Mifflin's Reviews
Reviews of Margot’s Work
May.01.2010
Published by Pacific Historical Review
“Margot Mifflin is a great storyteller…The Blue Tattoo is well written and well researched; it re-opens the story of white women and men going West and Native people trying to...
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Oct.19.2009
Published by Rain Taxi/Powell's Books Review a Day
[An] admirable and enjoyable book [that] offers analysis of both the reality and the mythology of Oatman’s life…”
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Dec.03.2009
Published by Western American Literature
Mifflin’s treatment of Olive’s sojourns [provides] an excellent teaching opportunity about America’s ongoing captivation with ethnic/gender crossings…
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Aug.10.2009
Published by Tattoo History
The book’s already received rave reviews, and for good reason.
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Nov.07.2009
Published by 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.”
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Nov.07.2009
Published by 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.”
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Sep.13.2009
Published by The Tucson Weekly
The Blue Tattoo is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a girl kidnapped by Native Americans.”
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Apr.01.2009
Published by Library Journal
“…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...
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Apr.01.2009
Published by Bust Magazine
The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, the first tattooed American white woman. Margot Mifflin based...
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Jul.10.2009
Published by The Times Literary Supplement
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.
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Aug.10.2009
Published by New West
“As Margot Mifflin demonstrates in her absorbing book, The Blue Tattoo, the truth about Olive Oatman is more complicated than the many fictions about her.”
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Aug.13.2009
Published by The Irish Times
“One can read this work of non-fiction as if it were a sensational novel – with progressive feminist implications.”
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About Margot
I'm an associate professor in the English Department of Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and I direct the Arts and Culture program at CUNY’s Graduate School of journalism, where I also teach. My first book was Bodies of Subversion: A...
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Causes Margot Mifflin Supports
Labor Research Institute
Women in Need
WNYC
National Organization for Women