Reckonings Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women

Name: Reckonings Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
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ISBN: 9780195109252

ISBN-10: 0195109252

ISBN-13: 9780195109252

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: $43.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction


Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)


Burned Alive in the Blues


Deer Woman


Beth E. Brant (1941-)


Turtle Gal


Swimming Upstream


Diane Glancy (1941-)


Minimal indian


Stamp Dance


An American Proverb


Anna Lee Walters (1946-)


Buffalo Wallow Woman


Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 1969


Apparitions


Janet Campbell Hale (1947-)


Claire


Linda Hogan (1947-)


Descent


Bush's Mourning Feast


Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-)


Storyteller


Mistaken Identity/Old Pancakes


Patricia Riley (1950-)


Damping Down the Road


Wisteria


Joy Harjo (1951-)


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 (1952-)


Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman


The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves


Louise Erdrich (1954-)


Le Mooz


Summer 1913/Miskomini-Geezis/Raspberry Sun


Almost Soup/Lazy Stitch


Kimberly M. Blaeser (1955-)


Like Some Old Story


Growing Things


Misha Nogha (1955-)


Memekwesiw


Sakura


Beth H. Piatote (1966-)


Beading Lesson


Life-Size Indian


Reid Gomez (1968-)


Electric gods


Touch. Touch. Touching


Author Biographies and Bibliographies


Anthologies of Native American Literatures


Index