A Pillar of Fire to Follow: American Indian Dramas, 1808-1859Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982 - 141 Seiten A Pillar of Fire to Follow concerns the Indian dramas, a series of popular, nineteenth-century American melodramas that deal with the interaction of Indians and Anglo-Europeans. Priscilla Sears has analyzed these works from a mythological point of view, concentrating on the myths of Indian and Anglo-European identity and destiny and the ways in which they relieve the guilt emanating from contemporary Indian policy and the symbolic betrayal of fathers. |
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Chapter 1 | 1 |
Chapter 3 | 32 |
Chapter 4 | 64 |
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A Pillar of Fire to Follow: American Indian Dramas, 1808-1859 Priscilla Sears Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1982 |
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