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Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America

By (author) Kenneth Lincoln

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Lincoln's study of Native American humour moves from tribal culture to interethnic literature. He covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies (speeches, treatises, as-told-to life stories), Euroamericans `playing Indian', Feminist Indian home humour, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music and Red English, and three Native American novelists, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday, as well as a bicultural novel, The Northern Lights, by Howard Norman.

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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc
Published date | 25 Nov 1993
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 416
Dimensions | 216 x 148 x 29mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 633g
ISBN | 978-0-1950-6887-0
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BISAC | social science / ethnic studies / native american studies

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