Table of Contents:
  • Belief, ethnicity, and self-definition
  • A witch and her curse : external definition and uncrossable boundaries in Lee Smith's Oral history
  • Predator, scavenger, and trickster-transformer : survival and the visionary experience in Louise Erdrich's Tracks
  • Calling Tayo back, unraveling coyote's skin : individuation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
  • Modern rationality and the supernatural : bridging two worlds in Gloria Naylor's Mama day
  • The ghost as demon and savior : confrontation with the past in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Warring with ghosts : power through individuation in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior.