The Dream of a Broken Field Dream of a Broken Field

ISBN-13: 9780803234819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 220 str.

Diane Glancy

Opis

The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet s vision and a storyteller s voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre s outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today.Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures English and German on her mother s side, Cherokee on her father s Glancy continues to search for a language that articulates the Native experience with both the fullness of tradition and the lapses inherent in a broken heritage. Accordingly, The Dream of a Broken Field offers a narrative that pauses and circles, connects and changes direction and travels great distances with grace only to stop sharply for a startling insight. Writing of weekend trips and long journeys, of natural landscapes and burial mounds, of Native American cosmology and a Christian upbringing, of Native American boarding schools and indigenous writers in American universities, Glancy captures the opposing demands of a hurried life and the timeless reflections of a history forever unfolding."