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The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction
ISBN: 9780803296145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. American Indian stories have fascinated the world for all the right reasons: vigor, depth, subtlety, brightness. In the 1960s a brilliant renaissance began. Out of it came such gifted writers of fiction as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, and Michael Dorris. In bringing them together, The Lightning Within celebrates some of the best work being done today in the novel and short story. Alan R. Velie, a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, has written a general introduction and headnotes to each selection. He is the...
American Indian stories have fascinated the world for all the right reasons: vigor, depth, subtlety, brightness. In the 1960s a brilliant renaissance ...
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American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780806123455 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and poetry by Paula Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a rich array of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Maurice Kenny.
Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetr...
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Native American Perspectives on Literature and History: Volume 19
ISBN: 9780806127859 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment.James Ruppert explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans.Helen Jaskoski analyzes the genre of autoethnography, or Indian historical writing, in an Ottawa writer's account of a smallpox epidemic. Kimberly Blaeser, a Chippewa,... Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indian... |
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The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement
ISBN: 9780806144023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence. The contributors scrutinize writers from Momaday to Sherman Alexie, analyzing works by Native women, First Nations Canadian writers,...
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn in 1...
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Native American Studies
ISBN: 9780748618613 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Covers the key issues of: the intimate relationship of culture to land, the nature of cultural contact and conflict in the period after European contact, the unique relat
Outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Covers the key issues of: the intimate relationship of culture t...
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Native American Studies
ISBN: 9780803278295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native American Studies covers key issues such as the intimate relationship of culture to land; the nature of cultural exchange and conflict in the period after European contact; the unique relationship of Native communities with the United States government; the significance of language; the vitality of contemporary cultures; and the variety of Native artistic styles, from literature and poetry to painting and sculpture to performance arts. This...
This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native Amer...
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136,61 zł |