Reckonings
Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 February 2008
- ISBN 9780195109245
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 160x243x22 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Reckonings offers stories by fifteen Native women writers in what is now the United States: much-loved stories and vibrant new stories by the most famous contemporary Native American writers as well as the fresh voices of emergent writers. Although diverse, these stories are reckonings with the brutal history of colonization and its ongoing consequences. This anthology gives fresh voice to Native American women for a new generation.
MoreLong description:
Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers an in-depth sampling of two or three stories by a select number of both famous and emergent Native women writers. Here you will find much-loved stories (many made easily accessible for the first time) and vibrant new stories by such well-known contemporary Native American writers as Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Leslie Marmon Silko as well as the fresh voices of emergent writers such as Reid Gomez and Beth Piatote.
Although diverse in style, language, and tone, all of these stories are reckonings with the brutal history of colonization and its ongoing consequences: they reveal Native epistemologies; testify to historic wrongs; and insist upon an accounting. A reckoning requires diving inward and resurfacing with new insights. These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure. These contemporary stories reflect cycles--mythic cycles, life cycles, cycles of resistance, and healing cycles--that insure Native survival. These are the stories told and retold by Native women who refuse to be silenced.
Their collection celebrates survival and provides readers with an essential new resource.
Table of Contents:
Paula Gunn Allen
"Burned Alive in the Blues", "Deer Woman"
Beth E. Brant
"Turtle Gal", "Swimming Upstream"
Diane Glancy
"minimal indian", "Stamp Dance", "An American Proverb"
Anna Lee Walters
"Buffalo Wallow Woman", "Las Vegas, New Mexico July 1969", "Apparitions"
Janet Campbell Hale
"Claire"
Linda Hogan
"Descent", "Bush's Mourning Feast"
Leslie Marmon Silko
"Storyteller","Mistaken Identity"/"Old Pancakes"
Patricia Riley
"Damping Down the Road", "Wisteria"
Joy Harjo
"The Reckoning", "the crow and the snake", "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", "The Flood", "Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century"
Anita Endrezze
"Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman", "The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves"
Louise Erdrich
"Le Mooz", "Summer 1913/Miskomini-geezis/Raspberry Summer", "Almost
Soup"/"Lazy Stitch"
Kimberly M. Blaeser
"Like Some Old Story", "Growing Things"
Misha
"Memekwesiw", "Sakura"
Beth H. Piatote
"Beading Lesson", "Life-Size Indian"
Reid Gomez
"electric gods", "Touch. Touch. Touching."
