Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This eloquent new anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. The chants, prayers, and songs in these pages vibrate with wisdom, joy, and terrible sadness. Underlying everything is a sense of the sacred - the wish, as one Yokuts poet says, to be "one with the world". The sixty poems in this collection are accompanied by over forty unforgettable duotone photographs by Edward S. Curtis. This stunning combination of word and image brings us closer than ever before to the heart of Native American traditions. The poems come from the woodlands, the plains, the deserts, and the pueblos. They speak of love, of war, of the known and the unknowable. Today's flowering of new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. This anthology aims to give a representative selection of the best of those traditions, from Maine to California.
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805010473
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Poems explore the nature of love, faith, and courage and portray the experiences of a wife in a small town
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Author: Adam Spry
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438468814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabegthe indigenous peoples of the Great Lakesliterary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the same time, literature has also offered American writers a way to make the Anishinaabe Nation disappear, often by relegating it to a distant past. In this book, Adam Spry puts these two traditions in conversation with one another, showing how novels, poetry, and drama have been the ground upon which Anishinaabeg and Americans have clashed as representatives of two nations contentiously occupying the same land. Focusing on moments of contact, appropriation, and exchange,Spry examines a diverse range of texts in order to reveal a complex historical network of Native and non-Native writers who read and adapted each others work across the boundaries of nation, culture, and time. By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint Is Writers Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood. In addition, the author reexamines several critical assumptionsabout authenticity, identity, and nationhood itselfthat have become common wisdom in both Native American and US literary studies.
Author: Alberta T. Turner
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
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Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Fu Du
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Category : Artists' illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Philip A. Greasley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253021162
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 3722
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Languages : en
Pages : 614
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