Dance Me Outside (short story collection)

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Dance Me Outside
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First edition
Author W. P. Kinsella
Publisher Oberon Press
Publication date
1977

Dance Me Outside is a collection of short stories written by W. P. Kinsella in 1977. [1]

The book contains stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that live on the reserve. [1]

Film and television adaptions

In 1995, Bruce McDonald directed the film Dance Me Outside starring Ryan Black, Hugh Dillon, and Adam Beach, an adaption of the book by Kinsella. [2] A year later in 1996, the television show The Rez was first aired, which was also an adaption of the book by Kinsella.

References

  1. 1 2 Lasansky, Terry Andrews (1978). "Dance Me Outside by W. P. Kinsella (review)" . Western American Literature. 12 (4): 328. doi:10.1353/wal.1978.0011. ISSN   1948-7142.
  2. Rob Salem, "Dance Me Outside struts a lively two-step". Toronto Star , March 10, 1995.