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Dance Me Outside (short story collection)

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Dance Me Outside
First edition
AuthorW. P. Kinsella
PublisherOberon 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

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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

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  1. ^ a b 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.