House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]

House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062911066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic, House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation, and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land, finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.

House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]

House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed] PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062911066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Book Description
“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” — The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic, House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation, and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land, finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.

Landscape and mythology in M. Scott Momady ́s 'House Made of Dawn'

Landscape and mythology in M. Scott Momady ́s 'House Made of Dawn' PDF Author: Lisa Giesecke
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638829561
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: In 1969 the rather unknown Native American author N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Price for fiction with his first novel House Made of Dawn. Until that time Native American fiction was quite unpopular; but Momaday’s’ novel certainly evoked the interest of the western audience. He was able to explore many important issues and conflicts the Native American community had to face in the twentieth century and – what was even more important – developed a narrative strategy to convey these issues to a bigger and, above all, multicultural audience. As Momaday covers so many themes in his novel, I decided to focus on the role of the landscape with its mythology and its powers. As it shows, the landscape plays an important role in this novel as well as in Native American beliefs.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Way to Rainy Mountain PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082632696X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface

Ancient Child

Ancient Child PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060973455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic, often lyrical contemporary novel--the story of Locke Setman, known as Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and, returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother, is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear-boy. When he meets Grey, a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift, his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man's tormented search for his identity--a quintessential American novel, and a great one.

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony PDF Author: Allan Richard Chavkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195142845
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Ceremony is one of the most widely taught Native American literature texts. This casebook includes theoretical approaches & information, especially on Native American beliefs, that will enhance the understanding & appreciation of this classic.

Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday

Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday PDF Author: Jim Charles
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820481869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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The Man Made of Words

The Man Made of Words PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312187422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing.

The Names

The Names PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816510467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist recalls the significant events and ventures of his own life, his own land, and his own people, recreating his experiences as an American Indian and those of his relatives

Shrouds of White Earth

Shrouds of White Earth PDF Author: Gerald Vizenor
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438434480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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--Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist’s long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to Paris

Ecology and Literatures in English

Ecology and Literatures in English PDF Author: Françoise Besson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152752339X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.