wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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American Indian Literatures
ISBN: 9780873521918 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in the field.
This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in th...
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American Indian Literatures
ISBN: 9780873521925 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Providing a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, this work describes various types of oral literatures and life histories, evaluates secondary works in the field, and includes an extensive selected bibliography. Includes an appendix of important dates in American Indian history. Index.
Providing a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, this work describes various types of oral literatures and life histories, ...
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Redefining American Literary History
ISBN: 9780873521888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of previous literary histories of the United States."" The volume suggests methods for redefining the American literary canon.
Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of li...
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The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780817309558 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume of new essays provides the first book-length critical
assessment of the fiction of America's best-known contemporary writer of Native American heritage. Louise Erdrich is arguably the most prolific and prominent contemporary This collection of original ssays focuses on Erdrich's writings rooted This volume of new essays provides the first book-length critical
assessment of the fiction of America's best-known contemporary writer of Nat... |
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Life, Letters and Speeches
ISBN: 9780803264632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted to Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary, becoming a forceful and energetic spokesperson for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the...
George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during ...
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Old Indian Days
ISBN: 9780803267183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Sioux who earned renown as the author of nearly a dozen books, was on home ground in writing about the traditional life of his people, their customs, warm family relations, reverence for animals, and struggle for survival. Originally published in 1907, Old Indian Days alludes to historical figures like Little Crow and Tamahay and to an event that Eastman experienced as a small boy, the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota....
The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles...
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The Moccasin Maker
ISBN: 9780806130798 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Long before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field. A mixed-blood of Mohawk-English descent, Johnson gained renown for literary recitals and theatrical performances in Canada, England, and the United States, being billed at the turn of the century as the "Mohawk Princess." Many of Johnson's stories in The Moccasin Maker depict nineteenth-century Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation. Long before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field.... |
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