Reading the Fire

The Traditional Indian Literatures of America
Herausgeber: Ramsey, Jarold

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Produktbeschreibung

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 of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays. Drawing on ethnographic data and regional folklore, Jarold Ramsey moves from origin and trickster narratives into interpretations of stories from the Nez Perce, Clackamas, Chinook, Coos, Wasco, and Tillamook repertoires, concluding with a set of essays on the neglected subject of Native literary responses to contact with Euroamericans. In his finely worked, erudite analyses, he mediates between an author-centered, print-based narrative tradition and one that is oral, anonymous, and tribal, adducing parallels between Native texts and works by Shakespeare, Yeats, Beckett, and Faulkner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Revised and Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780295977874
• ISBN-10: 0295977876
• Artikelnr.: 21077842

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jarold Ramsey

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One
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"
Part Two
4) From Mythic to Fictive in the Nez Perce Orpheus Myth
5) "The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Sprit" 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"
Part Three
9) Simon Fraser's Canoe; or Capsizing into Myth
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
15) Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Index