Trickster in the Land of Dreams

Papanikolas, Zeese

ISBN 10: 0803287542 ISBN 13: 9780803287549

Verlag: Bison, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Papanikolas MA BA Zeese

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"Exceptional, an important `crossover' book for western studies. . . . It is one of the first fine cultural studies texts in western history."-Western Historical Quarterly * Western Historical Quarterly * "A brilliantly crafted eye-opener of a book that points to some of the most important errors in history that have cast a shadow on the concept of the American dream since the first encounters between tribal nations and the colonizers."-Southwestern American Literature * Southwestern American Literature * "An intellectual delight."-Western American Literature * Western American Literature * "A treatise on how we seek solace in the arms of illusion and come away empty and confused. Partisan, painful, provocative, funny, sad, brilliant commentary."-Salt Lake Tribune * Salt Lake Tribune *

Reseña del editor:

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 utopian dreams 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, and the Las Vegas of tourists, dam builders, and gamblers. Among those whose visions are played out against the mirage-haunted background of the West are Cabeza de Vaca, Winston Churchill, Big Bill Haywood, and Native American wise man, Antelope Jake. It is a testament to the power of Papanikolas's conception that he can weave the themes and topics of each chapter into a book that is both eloquent and intellectually stimulating." 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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• Verlag: Bison
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803287542
• ISBN 13: 9780803287549
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198