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Solving mysteries of culture and self: Anita and Naspah in Anna Lee Walters's 'Ghost Singer.'
American Indian Quarterly, The, June, 1993 by Fiesta, Melissa J.
Anna Lee Walters's 'Ghost Singer' differs from most mystery novels in its presentation of intertwined, multidimensional mysteries, not all of which are solved. The novel shows different approaches to mystery taken by the Anglo and American Indian characters. The Anglo characters meddle in mysteries of American Indian culture that do not concern them.
They fail because they are unable to accept that some mysteries cannot be resolved. The American Indian characters deal only with mysteries that concern them either individually or culturally, and their spiritual heritage gives them the ...
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