Spider Woman's granddaughters : traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women /
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, 1989.Description: viii, 242 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0807081000
- 9780807081006
- Universidad Sergio Arboleda
- Indian women -- Literary collections
- Women -- United States -- Literary collections
- Short stories, American
- American fiction -- Indian authors
- American fiction -- Women authors
- Indians of North America -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Folklore
- Short stories, American -- History and criticism
- Women -- Literary collections
- Indians of North America -- Literary collections
- Indian women -- North America -- Literary collections
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Short stories
- Women -- Literary collections
- Alternative Press Collection
- Nouvelles am�ericaines -- Auteurs indiens d'Am�erique -- Anthologies
- Nouvelles am�ericaines -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes -- Anthologies
- Indiens d'Am�erique -- Am�erique du Nord -- Anthologies
- Indiens d'Amerique -- Amerique du Nord -- Folklore
- Indiennes d'Amerique -- Amerique du Nord -- Anthologies
- Ecrits de femmes americains -- Histoire et critique
- Ecrits de femmes indiens d'Amerique -- Histoire et critique
- Indiennes d'Amerique -- Anthologies
- Femmes -- Etats-Unis -- Anthologies
- Nouvelles americaines
- Roman americain -- Auteurs indiens d'Amerique
- American literature -- Women authors
- American fiction -- Indian authors
- American fiction -- Women authors
- Indian women
- Indians of North America
- Short stories, American
- Women
- Kurzgeschichte
- Schriftstellerin
- Indianen
- Verhalen
- Kurzgeschichte
- Schriftstellerin
- North America
- United States
- USA
- USA
- 810/.8/09287 19
- PS508.I5 S64 1989
- 810.8 S754a
- 17.91
- HU 2501
- 6,33
- Also issued online.
- American Book Award, 1990
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Priest River Library Adult Nonfiction | Priest River Library | Book | 810.8 ALLEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610023630275 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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 powerful collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories, many by the most accomplished Native American women writing today, including: Louise Erdrich, Mary TallMountain, Linda Hogan, and many others.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234).
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Paula Gunn Allen.
The warriors. A woman's fight / Pretty Shield -- A warrior's daughter / Zitkala-Sa -- Oshkikwe's baby / Delia Oshogay -- American horse / Louise Erdrich -- The warrior maiden / Oneida traditional -- The woman who fell from the sky / Iroquois (Mohawk) traditional -- As it was in the beginning / E. Pauline Johnson -- The clearing in the valley / Soge Track -- Blue Bird's offering / Ella Cara Deloria -- The warriors / Anna Lee Walters -- The beginning and the end of the world / Okanogan traditional.
The casualties. Coyote kills Owl-woman / Okanogan traditional -- The story of Green-blanket Feet / Humishima -- The disposal of Mary Joe's children / Mary TallMountain -- Grace / Vickie L. Sears -- Making do / Linda Hogan.
The resistance. The power of horses / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Evil Kachina steals Yellow Woman / Cochiti Pueblo traditional -- Sun steals Yellow Woman / Cochiti Pueblo traditional -- Whirlwind Man steals Yellow Woman / Laguna Pueblo traditional -- Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Deep purple / Paula Gunn Allen -- An American in New York / Paula Gunn Allen -- Stories don't have endings / Misha Gallagher.
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 powerful collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories, many by the most accomplished Native American women writing today, including: Louise Erdrich, Mary TallMountain, Linda Hogan, and many others.
Also issued online.
American Book Award, 1990
Reviews provided by Syndetics
Library Journal Review
What distinguishes this collection of stories by contemporary Native American women is Allen's meticulous scholarship; in her fine analytical headnotes, she explains how writers like Silko, Erdrich, and Hogan draw images, characters, and themes from traditional stories. Arranged thematically (``The Warriors,'' The Casualties''), the text shows that Native Americans ``write out of tribal traditions and into them'' and that Native women writers are ``strong, doubting, curious, inventive, frightened, brave, confused, and very contemporary human beings.'' A glossary and a typically trenchant introductory essay make Allen's latest work a treasure for scholars and general readers alike. Highly recommended.-- Rhoda Carroll, Vermont Coll., Montpelier (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
These 24 compelling and bleakly evocative narratives compiled by Allen, a professor of Native American studies at the University of California, all stress the theme of loss: loss of identity, loss of culture, loss of personal meaning. By juxtaposing traditional stories with contemporary tales, Allen allows readers to see how the same themes, values and perceptions have endured through the centuries, ``testaments to cultural persistence, to a vision and a spiritual reality that will not die.'' Echoes of the traditional ``Oshkikwe's Baby,'' about an old witch who steals babies, can be found in two stories. In Louise Erdrich's ``American Horse,'' a white social worker separates a boy from his mother for his own ``good,'' to the anguish of mother and son. In ``As It Was in the Beginning,'' by E. Pauline Johnson, a preacher takes a girl away from her family to attend a mission school; the tale is a powerful indictment of the hypocrisy of the ``Christian'' white culture in dealing with native Americans. The importance of storytelling in keeping the Pawnee culture alive is beautifully conveyed in Anna Lee Walter's ``The Warriors,'' in which their alcoholic uncle teaches two sisters that they must struggle to find beauty in the midst of squalor and poverty--``For beauty is why we live,'' he says. Allen's somewhat patronizing attitude toward her non-Native audience--in her introduction and editorial notes--is sometimes intrusive, but should not detract from the poignant impact of these stories. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reservedCHOICE Review
According to the Cherokee, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence and experience to the people. In this collection, Allen brings the stories of Indian women's experiences to the reader, accounts that she calls "women's war stories" because they demonstrate the turmoil through which American Indian women have lived and survived. The entries range from traditional stories of Owl-woman and Yellow Woman to contemporary accounts of women on reservations and in urban settings. Allen, in an informative introduction, refers to "told-to-people" stories and "told-to-the-page" stories, the oral and written modes of narrative that intertwine throughout the collection. She provides a case study in her presentation of three traditional Pueblo Yellow Woman stories and then includes "Yellow Woman," a contemporary story by Laguna writer Leslie Marmon Silko. The connections between oral and written material mirror the continuity that exists through time. In the first story, Pretty Shield, a Crow woman, says "the one who tells the stories rules the world," and her interpretation of the power of storytelling is demonstrated in this anthology. The collection includes early writers such as Zitkala-Sa and E. Pauline Johnson as well as contemporary novelists and poets such as Louise Erdrich, Mary TallMountain, and Linda Hogan. Allen is a poet and novelist as well as a literary critic whose essays in The Sacred Hoop (CH, Sep '86), which she also edited, are important contributions to the ongoing scholarship about American Indian women. All libraries. -G. M. Bataille, Arizona State UniversityBooklist Review
Great tales from the oral tradition and by outstanding contemporary writers.There are no comments on this title.