A Pillar of Fire to Follow: American Indian Dramas, 1808-1859
- ISBN-10
- 0879721936
- ISBN-13
- 9780879721930
- Pages
- 141
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Bowling Green University Popular Press
- Author
- Priscilla Sears
Description
A Pillar of Fire to Follow concerns the Indian dramas, a series of popular, nineteenth-century American melodramas that deal with the interaction of Indians and Anglo-Europeans. Priscilla Sears has analyzed these works from a mythological point of view, concentrating on the myths of Indian and Anglo-European identity and destiny and the ways in which they relieve the guilt emanating from contemporary Indian policy and the symbolic betrayal of fathers.
