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Reading the Fire : The Traditional Indian Literatures of America /
"Reading the Fire engages America's "first literatures," traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition includes four new essays."--Jacket.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
1999.
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| Edición: | Rev. and expanded. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Creations and Origins
- 2. Coyote and Friends: An Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage
- 3. The Poetry and Drama of Healing: The Iroquoian Condolence Ritual and the Navajo Night Chant
- 4. From Mythic to Fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth
- 5. "The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit," and the Ecological Imagination
- 6. The Wife Who Goes Out like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives
- 7. Uncursing the Misbegotten in a Tillamook Incest Story
- 8. Genderic and Racial Appropriation in Victoria Howard's "The Honorable Milt" [Howard]
- 9. Simon Fraser's Canoe; or, Capsizing into Myth [Fraser].
- 10. Fish-Hawk and Other Heroes
- 11. Retroactive Prophecy in Western Indian Narrative
- 12. The Bible in Western Indian Mythology
- 13. Ti-Jean and the Seven-headed Dragon: Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore
- 14. Francis La Flesche's "The Song of Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography [La Flesche]
- 15. Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing [Indians, Indigenous, Aboriginal or Native peoples, First Nations].