Death Chants: Short Stories (Doubleday Science Fiction) - Hardcover

Strete, Craig Kee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385233531 ISBN 13: 9780385233538

Publisher: Doubleday, 1988

Synopsis

Fifteen stories deal with American Indian rituals and myths about death and the intersection of the worlds of whites and Indians

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

An introduction by Salvador Dali is unexpected for a fantasy collection, but these stories are unusual in their subject matter. Drawing on the legends and cultural background of the American Indians, the contents range from creation myths such as "When Old Man Coyote Sang the World into Being" to tales of Indian life and death, and rueful stories of Indian/white relations. Sadly, Strete's vague, mystical imagery and his repetition of a small number of themes (loss, white misunderstanding of Native American culture and, above all, death) give the short collection a dull, monotonous quality. The memorable stories aren't better, only different: the Vietnam fantasy "The Game of Cat and Eagle" and the Hollywood dialogue "Another Horse of a Different Technicolor."
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From Library Journal:

On an unnamed hill in Vietnam, an Indian shaman beholds the inevitable outcome of a futile war as "The Game of Cat and Eagle" takes its terrible toll in a story that juxtaposes American Indian mythology and modern culture with startling results. The thirteen stories and two novellas that make up this collection demonstrate Strete's talent for evoking Native American imagery in a fantasy setting. Recommended where story collections are popular. JC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0385233531
• ISBN 13: 9780385233538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180