| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 332 pages) |
| Contents |
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] |
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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] |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Folk literature, Indian -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
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Indian literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Folk literature, Indian.
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Indian literature.
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Indianer
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Literatur
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Literatur -- USA -- Indianerautoren.
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West United States.
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USA
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USA.
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Indianer.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780295803500 |
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0295803509 |
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