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Reading the fire : the traditional Indian literatures of America / Jarold Ramsey.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0295977876
- ISBN: 9780295977874
- Physical Description: xxvii, 332 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: Rev. and expanded.
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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].
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- Subject:
- Folk literature, Indian > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Indian literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Littérature populaire indienne d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord (Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature indienne d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord (Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian literature.
United States, West. - Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Lummi Library | PM 155 .R36 1999 | 262356 | Stacks | Available | - |
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