Reading the fire : essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West / Jarold Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, Jarold, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian literature--West (U.S.)--History and criticism.

Indian literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1983]

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.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages [233]-243.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0803238649

OCLC:

8975061