Post-tribal epics : the native American novel between tradition and modernity

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Post-tribal epics : the native American novel between tradition and modernity

Giorgio Mariani

(Native American studies, v. 3)

E. Mellen Press, c1996

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Bibliography: p. [233]-250

Includes index

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Description

An analysis of some influential Native American novels published between 1969 and 1992, examining them as post-tribal epics. Novels discussed include: Momaday's House Made of Dawn; Silko's Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead; and Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney.

Table of Contents

  • Part One: Overview
  • Thomas Hyde, Steinschneider, Van Der Linde, and Murray. Part Two: Introduction to Talmud, Texts and Commentaries
  • Where and When did Chess start
  • Alexander's Game
  • An Enigmatic Board Game
  • 2 Exegetic Curiosities. Part Three: The Spanish Period of the golden ages of Hebrew and Arabic early chess writings
  • Arab and Jew
  • Moses Cohen, Disciplina Clericalis
  • Judah Halevi, Ha Kuzari
  • Chess in Verse, Abraham Ibn Ezra
  • Bonsenior Ibn Yehia
  • Chess, society and gambling
  • Jewish translators and authors of Alfonso manuscript
  • Abi Zakaria Yahya Ibn Ibrahim Al-Hakim
  • the new Chess, Luis de Lucena
  • Ruy Lopez
  • Shlomo Ben Mazel Tov. Part Four: Anonymous treatise, the King's Delight
  • Views and Judgments
  • Two stories from Mas'aseh Book
  • Moses Mendelssohn & Lessing's Nathan the Wise
  • Sevi Uri Rubinstein
  • Leon Hallandaerski, Delecies Royales
  • Jacob Eichenbaur, The Struggle.

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