Spider Woman's Granddaughters
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Spider Woman's Granddaughters by Paula Gunn Allen
"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Native American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself a Laguna Pueblo-Sioux Indian, became increasingly aware in her academic career that the writings of Native Americans, especially women, have been marginalized by the Western literary canon. Allen set out to understand why this was so and, more importantly, to remedy the situation. The result is this powerful collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories, many by the most accomplished Native American women writing today, including: Louise Erdrich, Mary TallMountain, Linda Hogan, and many others.
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 | 9780449905081 |
| ISBN 10 | 044990508X |
| Title | Spider Woman's Granddaughters |
| Author | Paula Gunn Allen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1990-05-12 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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