Sherman Alexie wraps himself in a richly intertextual quilt of visions for his first foray into major league publishing, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Like many Native American authors, Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur D'Alene writer who won an impressive following with his little-press premiere (The Business of Fancydancing, Hanging Loose Press), enjoys and celebrates the interplay between mythology and history, ... between "dreams" and "stories" and "visions" and "reality." Unlike many Native American authors, Alexie is as apt to evoke British rocker John Lennon or African American ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate