Sï¿½anii Dahataal/the Women Are Singing Poems and Stories

Name: Sï¿½anii Dahataal/the Women Are Singing Poems and Stories
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ISBN: 9780816513611

ISBN-10: 0816513619

ISBN-13: 9780816513611

Edition: 3rd 1993

Authors: Luci Tapahonso

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In this cycle of poetry and stories,Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock, New Mexico, and of the places and people there. Through these celebrations of birth, partings, and reunions, this gifted writer displays both her love of the Navajo world and her resonant use of language. Blending memoir and fiction in the storytelling style common to many Indian traditions, Tapahonso's writing shows that life and death are intertwined, and that the Navajo people live with the knowledge that identity is formed by knowing about the people to whom one belongs. The use of both English and Navajo in her work creates an interplay that may also give readers a new way of…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 95
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English