Author: Louise ErdrichPublisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805010473
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poems explore the nature of love, faith, and courage and portray the experiences of a wife in a small town
Jacklight
Author: Louise ErdrichPublisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805010473
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Poems explore the nature of love, faith, and courage and portray the experiences of a wife in a small town
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
Author: Louise ErdrichPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056521
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how The Beet Queen, Tracks, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, and The Crown of Columbus have been enhanced by both their artistic and their matrimonial union. Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Native American worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of Native Americans. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book, The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son's health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included are two recent interviews published here for the first time. In this collection, Erdrich and Dorris tell why they have chosen to write about many varying subjects and of why they refuse to be imprisoned in a literary ghetto of writers whose only subjects are Native Americans.
Speak Like Singing
Author: Kenneth LincolnPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826341709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature
Author: Jennifer McClinton-TemplePublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140576
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
Book Description
Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Author: Joy PorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Modern Towing
Author: John S. BlankPublisher: Schiffer + ORM
ISBN: 1507303610
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
A wide-ranging work on all aspects of towing, in both inland and ocean waters. Part I, The Industry, gives an overview, followed by descriptions of types of tugs and modes of towing. Part II, Operations, covers getting the tug under way, under way with tow and at sea, and special types of towing. Part III, Towing as a Business, deals with the shore establishment. More than fifty appendices consolidate data helpful to the tugmaster. The text is illustrated with more than 300 drawings, photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids.
Reading Faulkner
Author: Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A handbook for interpreting William Faulkner's most violent and shocking novel
Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O
Author: Frederic G. CassidyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
Understanding Louise Erdrich
Author: Seema KurupPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611176247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book Award-winning The Round House, The Birchbark House series of children's literature, the memoirs The Blue Jays Dance and Books and Island in Ojibwe Country, and selected poetry. Kurup elucidates Erdrich's historical context, thematic concerns, and literary strategies through close readings, offering an introductory approach to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich's writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial identity but from the ongoing condition of colonization faced by Native Americans in the United States, which is manifested in the very real and contemporary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights. Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effortlessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and community in Erdrich's writing. Kurup shows that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of the Ojibwe people and their presence and participation in the history of the United States.
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