{"product_id":"itch-like-crazy-book-wendy-rose-9780816521777","title":"Itch Like Crazy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmong Native American writers of mixed-blood heritage, \u003c\/b\u003e few have expressed their concerns with personal identity with as much passion as Wendy Rose. A mainstay among American Indian poets whose work addresses these issues, she is a writer with whom readers of diverse ethnic backgrounds have consistently identified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In her latest work, Rose returns to these major motifs while exploring a new dimension: using poetry as a tool to delve into the buried secrets of family history--and all of American history as well. Confronting questions of personal history that itch like crazy--the irritations that drive human existence--she acknowledges and pays tribute to her Indian and European ancestors without hiding her anger with American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rose's poems are strong political and social statements that have a distinctly narrative flavor. Here are Europeans who first set foot on America's shores while Taino Indians greeted them as if they were visiting neighbors; Hopi and Miwok Clan Mothers, grand-daughters, all those the missionaries erased; and European forebears who as settlers pushed their way relentlessly west. Through her vivid imagery, she speaks to and for these ancestors with a sense of loss and an itching caused by the biases provoked by ethnic chauvinism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItch Like Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e is a finely crafted literary work that is also a manifesto addressing contacts and conflicts in the history of Indian-white relations. By presenting another view of U.S. history and its impact on the Native Americans who are her ancestors, it offers a new appreciation of the issue of tribal identity that too often faces Native peoples of the Americas--and is too often misunderstood by Euro-American society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367891013905,"sku":"CIN0816521778G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53378659123473,"sku":"CIN0816521778VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816521778.jpg?v=1752317088","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/itch-like-crazy-buch-wendy-rose-9780816521777","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}