The Business of Fancydancing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Sherman Alexie
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poems, stories, and sketches
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Tradition
In this first collection of Sherman Alexie’s work, the author presents a selection of his writing around a central theme: what it means for Native Americans living on the reservation to find themselves delicately balanced between their tribal traditions and an impinging modern world outside the reservation. The conflict that such a situation engenders extends far beyond the confines of the Spokane/Coeur D’Alene Indian Reservation at Wellpinit in eastern Washington, where Alexie lives and about which he writes. His writing has cogent meaning for members of all subcultures within...
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