The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen
This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.Professor Emerita of English and American Indian Studies at UCLA, Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., is an American of Laguna Pueblo/Metis heritage. She is acknowledged as the creator of the discipline of Native American literary studies, having written numerous volumes, including the seminal The Sacred Hoop. She has won a Ford Foundation-National Research Council grant to research the oral tradition in Native American literature, a National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship, and has also served as an Associate Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Institute. She has received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, the Native American Prize for Literature, and the Native Writers Circle of the Americas' Lifetime Achievement Award. She resides in the California town of Fort Bragg.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780807046173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807046175 |
| Title | The Sacred Hoop |
| Author | Paula Gunn Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 1992-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |