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Dancing Ghosts
Mark Thomas Hoyer
其他書名
Native American and Christian Syncretism in Mary Austin's Work
出版University of Nevada Press, 1998
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & EthnicityReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American StudiesSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN08741731249780874173123
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s0BaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? In this study, Hoyer draws on his own knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Austin's creation of the "mythology of the American continent" she so valued. Austin lived in and wrote about "the land of little rain," semiarid and arid parts of California and Nevada that were home to the Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Interior Chumash, and Yokut peoples. Hoyer makes new and provocative connections between Austin and spiritual figures like Wovoka, the prophet of the Ghost Dance religion, and writers like Zitkala-sa and Mourning Dove, and he provides a particularly fine reading of Cogowea.