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Author Rainwater, Catherine, 1953-

Title Dreams of fiery stars : the transformations of native American fiction / Catherine Rainwater
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages)
Series Penn studies in contemporary American fiction
Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
Contents Acts of deliverance: narration and power -- Imagining the stories: narrativity and solidarity -- Re-signing the self: models of identity and community -- They all sang as one: refiguring space-time -- All the stories fit together: intertextual medicine bundles and twins
Summary "One of the most sophisticated studies to date of Native American fiction. ... The writing is lucid and the argument coherent."--Choice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index
Notes English
Subject American fiction -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Indians in literature.
American fiction
American fiction -- Indian authors
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98049977
ISBN 0812200209
9780812200201
1283210681
9781283210683
9786613210685
6613210684