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Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction by Catherine Rainwater (Paperback, 1999)

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Since 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 conventions of the mainstream novel, Native American written narrative has emerged as something distinct from the postmodern novel with which it is often compared. In Dreams of Fiery Stars, Catherine Rainwater examines the novels of writers such as Momaday, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich and contends that the very act of writing narrative imposes constraints upon these authors that are foreign to Native American tradition. Their works amount to a break with-and a transformation of-American Indian storytelling. The book focuses on the agenda of social and cultural regeneration encoded in contemporary Native American narrative, and addresses key questions about how these works achieve their overtly stated political and revisionary aims. Rainwater explores the ways in which the writers create readers who understand the connection between storytelling and personal and social transformation; considers how contemporary Native American narrative rewrites Western notions of space and time; examines the existence of intertextual connections between Native American works; and looks at the vital role of Native American literature in mainstream society today.

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University of Pennsylvania Press
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9780812216820
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Book Title
Dreams of Fiery Stars: the Transformations of Native American Fiction
Author
Catherine Rainwater
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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216mm
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140mm
Item Weight
315g

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Catherine Rainwater
Series Title
Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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United States

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