- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; New edition edition (Oct 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803287542
- ISBN-13: 978-0803287549
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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On one level, Zeese Papanikolas's intriguing book is about Coyote, the great trickster hero of many Native American cultures. On another, it concerns the conflicting mythologies of the settlement of the American West, whether Brigham Young or Billy the Kid. Papanikolas tosses in an abundance of travelers' tales: the Homeric epics that underlie the folklore of the Western world and the American West alike, the reports of the Spanish entradas with their legends of cities of gold, hopeful stories of the dream mines of the Uinta foothills and the Big Rock Candy Mountain of the Wobblies. He also peppers his historical narrative with revisionist readings of popular novels, examining The Virginian as a morality play of social Darwinism and The Wizard of Oz as a parable of Gilded Age excess.
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"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.
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trickster,
By richard griffin (Ashland, WI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trickster in the Land of Dreams (Paperback)
I loan this book out alot, as it often makes its way into conversation. A history of the miniature empires that have made their clumsy way through the land of the Shoshone people as seen by Coyote, their jester and creator (the two could hardly be mutually exclusive). Miniature empires collapsing just as they've made their plans to conquer the land. Scholarly, cynical, and irreverent, and full of great stories and poetically written.
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trickster,
By richard griffin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Trickster in the Land of Dreams (Paperback)
I loan this book out alot, as it often makes its way into conversation. A history of the miniature empires that have made their clumsy way through the land of the Shoshone people as seen by Coyote, their jester and creator (the two could hardly be mutually exclusive). Miniature empires collapsing just as they've made their plans to conquer the land. Scholarly, cynical, and irreverent, and full of great stories and poetically written.
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