A Pillar of Fire to Follow: American Indian Dramas, 1808-1859

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.

• | Author: Priscilla Sears
• | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1982
• | Number of Pages: 150 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0879721944
• | ISBN-13: 9780879721947