"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Native American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself a Laguna Pueblo-Sioux Indian, became increasingly aware in her academic career that the writings of Native Americans, especially women, have been marginalized by the Western literary canon. Allen set out to understand why this was so and, more importantly, to remedy the situation. The result is this...
"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent ...
Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's work, from powerful critiques of Western social constructs to astute analyses of Native American literature of the late twentieth century, as well as the deeply personal history from which her feminist-centered spiritual wisdom emerges.
Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's work, from powerful critiques of Wester...
