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The American Rhythm: Studies and Reexpressions of Amerindian Songs; Facsimile of 1930 edition
ISBN: 9780865345706 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Austin was one of the first to recognize that Native American myths and culture were in danger of being eroded and lost. She then took upon herself the duty of tracking down American Indian songs and poems, saying that she was not giving a translation of the original but what she preferred to call a "re-expression" which she referred to as "reexpressions." It was her belief that the life and environment of the person who made up the words was an important part of understanding the rhythm and meaning of the work. She considered tribal dancing an essential part of the sung or spoken words...
Mary Austin was one of the first to recognize that Native American myths and culture were in danger of being eroded and lost. She then took upon herse...
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102,43 zł |
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Destruction of the Jaguar: From the Books of Chilam Balam
ISBN: 9780872862104 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that "The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally considered to be transcriptions and recompilations from memory of material originally contained in the hieroglyphic books, all of which were apparently destroyed by the Spaniards. . . . As they stand now, they are a curious and fascinating combination of prophecy, history, chronology, ritual and mythology." Here is an English... Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that "The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal s... |
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61,37 zł |
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780873529150 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume seeks to enrich teachers' and students' understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry. The first part of the book provides background readings that establish a context for teaching Erdrich and acquaint teachers with Native American traditions, history, customs, and culture--especially those of the Ojibwe, or Chippewa. In the second section, experienced teachers of Erdrich discuss the strategies they use to engage students in a sometimes unfamiliar world. Essays provide information on Erdrich's tribe, the...
This volume seeks to enrich teachers' and students' understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teach...
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210,62 zł |
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Four Winds: Poems from Indian Rituals
ISBN: 9780913270073 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". lovely bits of Zuni, Navajo, Tewa, San Juan-ceremonial chants, prayers, blessings, rituals that are truly lovely and a living part of our Indian Southwest." This is how critic Alice Bullock, herself a noted author and historian of the Southwest, described Gene Meany Hodge's Four Winds upon its initial publication. Sunstone Press is now pleased to offer this prized work in its new format with the hope that it will soon reach many more readers who are interested in this fascinating and haunting subject. The author says: "I am grateful to all the students of Indian ceremonial life who... ..". lovely bits of Zuni, Navajo, Tewa, San Juan-ceremonial chants, prayers, blessings, rituals that are truly lovely and a living part of our Indi... |
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44,95 zł |
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The Great Kiva
ISBN: 9780913270844 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legends of the American Southwestern world, along with man's relationship and reactions to his natural habitat and to his universe are set into this compelling poetry of Phillips Kloss. Kloss considered this volume to be "a religious essence of his country and his humanity with the kiva theme, the man theme and the verbality theme consistent throughout." * * * * * PHILLIPS KLOSS was born in Webster Groves, Missouri in 1902. He moved to New Mexico in 1916 where he worked on his brother's ranch, later graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1925. Once a reporter for the...
The legends of the American Southwestern world, along with man's relationship and reactions to his natural habitat and to his universe are set into th...
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77,79 zł |
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Native American Fiction: A User's Manual
ISBN: 9781555974527 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture. An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction This book has been written with the narrow... |
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73,90 zł |
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Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
ISBN: 9781578063017 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The most effective political statement I could make is in my art work. . . . The most radical kind of politics is language as plain truth.-
Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America's best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, and brilliant first novel Ceremony (1977) earned her recognition as a star of the Native American Renaissance. In Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko, her readers will find both the power that fueled her early work and an update on her... -The most effective political statement I could make is in my art work. . . . The most radical kind of politics is language as plain truth.-
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161,95 zł |
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The Salt Companion to Carter Revard
ISBN: 9781844710904 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Salt Companion to Carter Revard" is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osage poet and scholar of medieval English literature, Carter Revard. Erudite, yet highly readable and entertaining, these essays offer multiple perspectives on Revard's complex and beautifully crafted poetry that should appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike.
"The Salt Companion to Carter Revard" is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osage poet and scholar of medieval English literature, C...
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122,96 zł |
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American Science Fiction and the Cold War : Literature and Film
ISBN: 9781853312274 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American science fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through a series of key texts, this work investigates the political inflexions put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. American society is a key element in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives which include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dr Strangelove.
American science fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through...
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159,25 zł |
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American Indian Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803217492 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a...
American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers,...
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82,14 zł |
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Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective
ISBN: 9780806138879 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language; Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers;... This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue t... |
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124,10 zł |
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Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
ISBN: 9780822342236 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of Red Power, an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Looking to the era s moments and literature, he develops an alternative, tribal realist critical perspective to allow for more nuanced...
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of Red Power, an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 a...
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498,30 zł |
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Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
ISBN: 9780822342410 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Looking to the era's moments and literature, he develops an alternative, "tribal realist" critical perspective to allow for more nuanced...
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969...
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128,37 zł |
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Contemporary Native American Literature
ISBN: 9780748621491 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to contemporary Native American literature is suitable for students with little or no knowledge of the subject, or of Native American culture or history.
It examines influential texts in the context of the historical moment of their production, with reference to significant literary developments. Most importantly, Native literature is assessed within the wider socio-political context of American colonialism, the history of Federal-Indian relations and policies, popular perceptions of 'Indians', and contemporary Native economic, social, and political realities. A... This introduction to contemporary Native American literature is suitable for students with little or no knowledge of the subject, or of Native America...
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143,79 zł |
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In Beauty I Walk: The Literary Roots of Native American Writing
ISBN: 9780826343697 / Angielski / Miękka / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'In Beauty I Walk' offers generous selections of both oral/traditional texts and works by the first generations of Native American writers. The anthology allows readers to see the ways in which writers of the modern 'Native American Renaissance' have perpetuated, adapted, and departed from oral tradition.
'In Beauty I Walk' offers generous selections of both oral/traditional texts and works by the first generations of Native American writers. The anthol...
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178,45 zł |
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Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory
ISBN: 9781604975192 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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459,59 zł |
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Fifty Southern Writers After 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780313245190 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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324,45 zł |
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Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance
ISBN: 9780826339881 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simon J. Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with more than two dozen volumes of poetry, prose fiction, children's literature, and nonfiction work to his credit and his being anthologized around the world. This edited volume is devoted to the depth and range of Ortiz's contribution to contemporary Native American literature and literary scholarship. Including interviews with Ortiz, short creative nonfiction essays by Native women writers and scholars, and innovative critical discussions by a dozen scholars of Native... Simon J. Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with more than two dozen volumes of poe... |
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207,19 zł |
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Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature
ISBN: 9780826341709 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Speak Like Singing" honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, and solitary vision.
"Speak Like Singing" honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, a...
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149,71 zł |
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Nahuatl Theater: Nahuatl Theater Volume 4: Nahua Christianity in Performance
ISBN: 9780806140100 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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293,40 zł |