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An edition of Reading the fire (1983)

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Nebraska Press
Pages
250

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Subjects
West (U.S.), History and criticism, Indian Folk literature, Indian literature, American literature, indian authors, Indian literature, history and criticism
Places
West (U.S.)

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Reading the fire: the traditional Indian literatures of America
1999, University of Washington Press
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1983, University of Nebraska Press
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Table of Contents

Creations and origins
Coyote and friends, an experiment in interpretive bricolage
From mythic to fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus myth
"The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit," and the ecological imagination
The wife who goes out like a man, comes back as a hero, the art of two Oregon Indian narratives
Uncursing the misbegotten in a Tillamook incest myth
Simon Fraser's canoe; or, Capsizing into myth
Fish-hawk and other heroes
Retroactive prophecy in western Indian narratives
The Bible in western Indian mythology
Tradition and individual talents in modern Indian writing.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [233]-243.

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Lincoln

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
897
Library of Congress
PM155 .R35 1983, PM155 .R35 1983, PM155

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 250 p. ;
Number of pages
250

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OL18339305M
ISBN 10
0803238649
LCCN
82021775
OCLC/WorldCat
8975061
Library Thing
1794414
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2725458

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