The Man To Send Rain Clouds Contemporary Stories By American Indians

Author : Kenneth Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014017317X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man to Send Rain Clouds written by Kenneth Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen stories about the strength and passion of today’s American Indian—including six from the acclaimed Leslie Marmon Silko. Anthropologists have long delighted us with the wise and colorful folktales they transcribed from their Indian informants. The stories in this collection are another matter altogether: these are white-educated Indians attempting to bear witness through a non-Indian genre, the short story. Over a two-year period, Kenneth Rosen traveled from town to town, pueblo to pueblo, to uncover the stories contained in this volume. All reveal, to varying degrees and in various ways, the preoccupations of contemporary American Indians. Not surprisingly, many of the stories are infused with the bitterness of a people and a culture long repressed. Several deal with violence and the effort to escape from the pervasive, and so often destructive, white influence and system. In most, the enduring strength of the Indian past is very much in evidence, evoked as a kind of counterpoint to the repression and aimlessness that have marked, and still mark today, the lives of so many American Indians.

Author : Kenneth Rosen
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140173178
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man to Send Rain Clouds written by Kenneth Rosen and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen stories about the strength and passion of today’s American Indian—including six from the acclaimed Leslie Marmon Silko. Anthropologists have long delighted us with the wise and colorful folktales they transcribed from their Indian informants. The stories in this collection are another matter altogether: these are white-educated Indians attempting to bear witness through a non-Indian genre, the short story. Over a two-year period, Kenneth Rosen traveled from town to town, pueblo to pueblo, to uncover the stories contained in this volume. All reveal, to varying degrees and in various ways, the preoccupations of contemporary American Indians. Not surprisingly, many of the stories are infused with the bitterness of a people and a culture long repressed. Several deal with violence and the effort to escape from the pervasive, and so often destructive, white influence and system. In most, the enduring strength of the Indian past is very much in evidence, evoked as a kind of counterpoint to the repression and aimlessness that have marked, and still mark today, the lives of so many American Indians.

Author : Kenneth Rosen
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Download or read book The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians written by Kenneth Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143121286
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storyteller written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work.

Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140576
Total Pages : 1566 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature written by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578063017
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains sixteen interviews that provide insight into the thinking and writing of twentieth-century Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko.

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813520056
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Woman written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.

Author : Alan R. Velie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803296145
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lightning Within written by Alan R. Velie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian stories have fascinated the world for all the right reasons: vigor, depth, subtlety, brightness. In the 1960s a brilliant renaissance began. Out of it came such gifted writers of fiction as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, and Michael Dorris. In bringing them together, The Lightning Within celebrates some of the best work being done today in the novel and short story.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486316491
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Short Stories by Contemporary Native American Writers written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by a wide range of modern authors includes Pauline Johnson, Zitkala-Sa, and John M. Oskison, as well as writers who came to prominence in the decades following World War II.

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128324
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable; there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths--a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.