Reckonings Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women

Name: Reckonings Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
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ISBN: 9780195109245

ISBN-10: 0195109244

ISBN-13: 9780195109245

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Lauren Stuart Muller, Jana Sequoya Magdaleno

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Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers an in-depth sampling of two or three stories by a select number of both famous and emergent Native women writers. Here you will find much-loved stories (many made easily accessible for the first time) and vibrant new stories by such well-known contemporary Native American writers as Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Leslie Marmon Silko as well as the fresh voices of emergent writers such as Reid Gomez and Beth Piatote. Although diverse in style, language, and tone, all of these stories are reckonings with the brutal history of colonization and its ongoing consequences: they…

Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Paula Gunn Allen "Burned Alive in the Blues"


"Deer Woman" Beth E. Brant "Turtle Gal"


"Swimming Upstream" Diane Glancy "minimal ndian", "Stamp Dance"


"An American Proverb" Anna Lee Walters "Buffalo Wallow Woman"


"Las Vegas, New Mexico July 1969"


"Apparitions" Janet Campbell Hale


"Claire" Linda Hogan "Descent", "Bush's Mourning Feast" Leslie Marmon Silko


"Storyteller", "Mistaken Identity" "Old Pancakes" Patricia Riley


"Damping Down the Road", "Wisteria" Joy Harjo


"The Reckoning", "the crow and the snake", "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", "The Flood"


"Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century" Anita Endrezze


"Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman", "The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves" Louise Erdrich


"Le Mooz", "Summer 1913/Miskomini-geezis/Raspberry Summer", "AlmostSoup" "Lazy Stitch" Kimberly M. Blaeser "Like Some Old Story", "Growing Things" Misha "Memekwesiw", "Sakura" Beth H. Piatote "Beading Lesson", "Life-Size Indian"Reid Gomez "electric gods", "Touch. Touch. Touching."