| Description |
xxi, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 233-243. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
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Indian literature. |
| ISBN |
0803238649 |
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