Grandmothers of The Light by Paula Gunn Allen

Grandmothers of The Light by Paula Gunn Allen

This extraordinary collection of goddess stories from Native American civilizations across the continent, Paula Gunn Allen shares myths that have guided female shamans toward an understanding of the sacred for centuries.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780807081037
ISBN 10	0807081035
Title	Grandmothers of The Light
Author	Paula Gunn Allen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	1992-09-30
Number of pages	268
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