Reading the fire
Subtitle: essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West
By: Jarold Ramsey.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Folk literature, Indian -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; Indian literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
Notes: Bibliography: p. [233]-243.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Creations and origins; title: Coyote and friends, an experiment in interpretive bricolage; title: From mythic to fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus myth; title: "The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit," and the ecological imagination; title: The wife who goes out like a man, comes back as a hero, the art of two Oregon Indian narratives; title: Uncursing the misbegotten in a Tillamook incest myth; title: Simon Fraser's canoe; or, Capsizing into myth; title: Fish-hawk and other heroes; title: Retroactive prophecy in western Indian narratives; title: The Bible in western Indian mythology; title: Tradition and individual talents in modern Indian writing.