Dreams of Fiery Stars : : The Transformations of Native American Fiction / / Catherine Rainwater.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works have found an audience by observing many of the co...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue. A Universe Perfused with Signs
- Chapter One. Acts of Deliverance: Narration and Power
- Chapter Two. Imagining the Stories: Narrativity and Solidarity
- Chapter Three. Re-Signing the Self: Models of Identity and Community
- Chapter Four. They All Sang as One: Refiguring Space-Time
- Chapter Five. All the Stories Fit Together: Intertextual Medicine Bundles and Twins
- Epilogue. All We Have Are Stories: Semiosis and Regeneration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments