Book completed

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Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970, by Kirby Brown. Kirby's a professor in the English department at our university, and his wife was a long-time co-worker of J's. I bought the book soon after it was published and read a part of it, then set it aside in favor of recreational reading with a less academic style. He's giving a talk tomorrow, though, which I treated as a deadline to finish reading it.

It's great! He profiles four Cherokee writers - a novelist, a biographer, a playwright, and an administrator. I especially enjoyed the detailed analysis of the play "Cherokee Night" by Rollie Lynn Riggs, who also wrote the play from which the musical Oklahoma! was adapted.