A Pillar of Fire to Follow: American Indian Dramas, 1808-1859 Contributor(s): Sears, Priscilla (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879721944 ISBN-13: 9780879721947 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1982 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Drama | American - General |
Dewey: 812.209 |
LCCN: 81085523 |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 150 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |