Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History

by Daniel Heath Justice

Once the most powerful indigenous nation in the southeastern United States, the Cherokees survive and thrive as a people nearly two centuries after the Trail of Tears and a hundred years after the allotment of Indian Territory. In Our Fire Survives the Storm, Daniel Heath Justice traces the expression of Cherokee identity in that nation's literary tradition.

Through cycles of war and peace, resistance and assimilation, trauma and regeneration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816646392
• ISBN13: 9780816646395
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A fine method of analyzing stories for strengths, purpose, and direction

OUR FIRE SURVIVES THE STORM: A CHEROKEE LITERARY HISTORY uses the Chickamauga consciousness of resistance and Beloved Path of engagement to provide a different method of interpreting texts composed in English, revealing different nuances of Cherokee literary tradition in the process. With Daniel Health Justice's approach in hand, college-level students of Native American literature have a fine method of analyzing stories for strengths, purpose, and direction. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch