Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0816515212 ISBN 13 : 9780816515219

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 1995

Synopsis

Editors Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda have gathered the contributions of nineteen Native Americans in compiling this collection. Some are stories from oral traditions, others are autobiographical writings, and some are songs or poems. But all are contemporary, and all have as a unifying element a strong central theme in Native American writing: home places.
Some of the contributors define the home place as a center of established values, while others speak of its cultural or physical geography. Healing powers are often found at home places. Home is a place to defend against those who would reduce it to insignificance, a place to reclaim, or a place reclaimed but not yet realized. One writer recalls a home that must be pulled from deep beneath the waters of the Columbia River.
By listening to these stories of home places, the reader can gain a new appreciation of the contemporary verbal expressions of Native American communities. Home Places, note the editors, "asks you to listen to Native American singers, storytellers, and writers, and in this way to celebrate the wellsprings of creativity that continue to flow from the home places in Native America."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816515212
• ISBN 13: 9780816515219
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 97
• Éditeur: Evers Larry, Zepeda Ofelia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible