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Reckonings
Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
Taschenbuch von Hertha D. Sweet Wong (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers an in-depth sampling of two or three stories by a select number of both famous and emergent Native women writers. Here you will find much-loved stories (many made easily accessible for the first time) and vibrant new stories by such well-known contemporary Native American writers as Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Leslie Marmon Silko as well as thefresh voices of emergent writers such as Reid Gomez and Beth Piatote. These stories celebrate Native American life and provide readers with essential insight into this vibrant culture.
Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers an in-depth sampling of two or three stories by a select number of both famous and emergent Native women writers. Here you will find much-loved stories (many made easily accessible for the first time) and vibrant new stories by such well-known contemporary Native American writers as Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Leslie Marmon Silko as well as thefresh voices of emergent writers such as Reid Gomez and Beth Piatote. These stories celebrate Native American life and provide readers with essential insight into this vibrant culture.
Über den Autor
Hertha D. Sweet Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; editor of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook; and co-editor with John Elder of Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World.
Jana Sequoya Magdaleno lives in Northern California where her focus is on Native community health and healing practices.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Paula Gunn Allen

  • "Burned Alive in the Blues", "Deer Woman"

  • Beth E. Brant

  • "Turtle Gal", "Swimming Upstream"

  • Diane Glancy

  • "minimal ndian", "Stamp Dance", "An American Proverb"

  • Anna Lee Walters

  • "Buffalo Wallow Woman", "Las Vegas, New Mexico July 1969", "Apparitions"

  • Janet Campbell Hale

  • "Claire"

  • Linda Hogan

  • "Descent", "Bush's Mourning Feast"

  • Leslie Marmon Silko

  • "Storyteller","Mistaken Identity"/"Old Pancakes"

  • Patricia Riley

  • "Damping Down the Road", "Wisteria"

  • Joy Harjo

  • "The Reckoning", "the crow and the snake", "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", "The Flood", "Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century"

  • Anita Endrezze

  • "Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman", "The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves"

  • Louise Erdrich

  • "Le Mooz", "Summer 1913/Miskomini-geezis/Raspberry Summer", "Almost

  • Soup"/"Lazy Stitch"

  • Kimberly M. Blaeser

  • "Like Some Old Story", "Growing Things"

  • Misha

  • "Memekwesiw", "Sakura"

  • Beth H. Piatote

  • "Beading Lesson", "Life-Size Indian"

  • Reid Gomez

  • "electric gods", "Touch. Touch. Touching."

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195109252
ISBN-10: 0195109252
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Muller, Lauren Stuart
Magdaleno, Jana Sequoya
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Hertha D. Sweet Wong (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2008
Gewicht: 0,524 kg
Artikel-ID: 120656497
Über den Autor
Hertha D. Sweet Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; editor of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook; and co-editor with John Elder of Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World.
Jana Sequoya Magdaleno lives in Northern California where her focus is on Native community health and healing practices.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Paula Gunn Allen

  • "Burned Alive in the Blues", "Deer Woman"

  • Beth E. Brant

  • "Turtle Gal", "Swimming Upstream"

  • Diane Glancy

  • "minimal ndian", "Stamp Dance", "An American Proverb"

  • Anna Lee Walters

  • "Buffalo Wallow Woman", "Las Vegas, New Mexico July 1969", "Apparitions"

  • Janet Campbell Hale

  • "Claire"

  • Linda Hogan

  • "Descent", "Bush's Mourning Feast"

  • Leslie Marmon Silko

  • "Storyteller","Mistaken Identity"/"Old Pancakes"

  • Patricia Riley

  • "Damping Down the Road", "Wisteria"

  • Joy Harjo

  • "The Reckoning", "the crow and the snake", "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", "The Flood", "Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century"

  • Anita Endrezze

  • "Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman", "The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves"

  • Louise Erdrich

  • "Le Mooz", "Summer 1913/Miskomini-geezis/Raspberry Summer", "Almost

  • Soup"/"Lazy Stitch"

  • Kimberly M. Blaeser

  • "Like Some Old Story", "Growing Things"

  • Misha

  • "Memekwesiw", "Sakura"

  • Beth H. Piatote

  • "Beading Lesson", "Life-Size Indian"

  • Reid Gomez

  • "electric gods", "Touch. Touch. Touching."

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195109252
ISBN-10: 0195109252
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Muller, Lauren Stuart
Magdaleno, Jana Sequoya
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Hertha D. Sweet Wong (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2008
Gewicht: 0,524 kg
Artikel-ID: 120656497
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