LEADER 04419nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910808038703321 005 20240625145703.0 010 $a1-283-21068-1 010 $a9786613210685 010 $a0-8122-0020-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200201 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051251 035 $a(OCoLC)759037217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491923 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347517 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10532113 035 $a(PQKB)11153091 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3168 035 $a(DE-B1597)448881 035 $a(OCoLC)979577486 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491923 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321068 035 $a(OCoLC)748533285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441466 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051251 100 $a19981029d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDreams of fiery stars $ethe transformations of Native American fiction /$fCatherine Rainwater 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aPenn studies in contemporary American fiction 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1682-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPrologue. A Universe Perfused with Signs --$tChapter One. Acts of Deliverance: Narration and Power --$tChapter Two. Imagining the Stories: Narrativity and Solidarity --$tChapter Three. Re-Signing the Self: Models of Identity and Community --$tChapter Four. They All Sang as One: Refiguring Space-Time --$tChapter Five. All the Stories Fit Together: Intertextual Medicine Bundles and Twins --$tEpilogue. All We Have Are Stories: Semiosis and Regeneration --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works have found an audience by observing many of the conventions of the mainstream novel, Native American written narrative has emerged as something distinct from the postmodern novel with which it is often compared.In Dreams of Fiery Stars, Catherine Rainwater examines the novels of writers such as Momaday, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich and contends that the very act of writing narrative imposes constraints upon these authors that are foreign to Native American tradition. Their works amount to a break with?and a transformation of?American Indian storytelling.The book focuses on the agenda of social and cultural regeneration encoded in contemporary Native American narrative, and addresses key questions about how these works achieve their overtly stated political and revisionary aims. Rainwater explores the ways in which the writers "create" readers who understand the connection between storytelling and personal and social transformation; considers how contemporary Native American narrative rewrites Western notions of space and time; examines the existence of intertextual connections between Native American works; and looks at the vital role of Native American literature in mainstream society today. 410 0$aPenn studies in contemporary American fiction. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life 606 $aIndians in literature 607 $aUSA$2gnd 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 676 $a813/.540897 700 $aRainwater$b Catherine$f1953-$01656172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808038703321 996 $aDreams of fiery stars$94008885 997 $aUNINA