Trickster in the Land of Dreams
Zeese Papanikolas forges seemingly disparate events and movements in western history - including some of its strangest and most exotic strains - into a coherent whole by examining them against the laughter and wisdom of Shoshonean trickster tales. Seen against these tales, the West becomes both a canvas for the projection of dreams of utopia and the site of their shattered remains. Papanikolas undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories and examines, along with other topics, the mythologies embedded in the Dream Mine of Mormon folklore, the heroic images of cowboys and Wobblies, the MX missile, the dark side of Oz, the Las Ve…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-8754-9
- EAN: 9780803287549
- Produktnummer: 1790922
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.5 cm 295 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 295
Über den Autor
The author of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (also a Bison Book), Zeese Papanikolas is on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute.
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