ilość książek w kategorii: 408
Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures
ISBN: 9780803260344 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transatlantic Voices is the first collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry the essays chart the course of recent theories ofNative literature, delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies, and probe specific themes of trauma and memory as well as changing mythologies. These essays also incorporate incipient transnational and transcultural methodologies in their approach to Native North American writing.Blending...
Transatlantic Voices is the first collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted...
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112,62 zł |
Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
ISBN: 9780803273351 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Now I Know Only So Far, sociolinguist and ethnopoetic scholar Dell Hymes examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures and how they can best be approached and appreciated. Such narratives, Hymes argues, are ways of making sense of the world. To truly comprehend the importance and durability of these narratives, one must investigate the ways of thinking expressed in these texts-the cultural sensibilities also deeply affected by storytellers' particular experiences and mastery of form. Included here are seminal overviews and reflections on the history and potential...
In Now I Know Only So Far, sociolinguist and ethnopoetic scholar Dell Hymes examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures a...
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146,27 zł |
The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture
ISBN: 9780803277861 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism," the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property," and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, "A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians," presents...
The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat conside...
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66,65 zł |
Masterpieces of American Indian Literature
ISBN: 9780803289970 / Angielski / Miękka / 623 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate testimony about American Indian culture as related by Indians themselves. Deep emotions and life-shaking crises converge in these pages concerning identity, family, community, caste, gender, nature, the future, the past, solitude, duty, trust, betrayal, leadership, war, and apocalypse. Each work is also regarded as a classic of Native literature and has much to teach. The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) by George Copway, a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, describes his...
The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate testimony about American Indian culture as relate... |
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120,98 zł |
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America
ISBN: 9780803293380 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities of the American West. The rich and varied oral tradition of this Native language family, one of the farthest-flung in North America, comes brilliantly to life in this remarkably broad sampling of Algonquian songs and stories from across the centuries. Ranging from the speech of an early unknown Algonquian to the famous Walam Olum hoax, from retranslations of "classic" stories to texts appearing...
When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across...
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146,06 zł |
Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence
ISBN: 9780803296220 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry, tragedy, and nostalgia. In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native. Gerald Vizenor is a professor of American studies and Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China, winner of the American Book Award.
Native peoples today are best known through their fugitive poses: textual and graphic depictions steeped in a modernist aesthetic of romantic victimry...
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75,01 zł |
Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico: Volume 92
ISBN: 9780806119748 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the Tarascans of Michoacan, the Otomis of central Mexico, and others. They have come down to us from inscriptions on stone, the codices, and accounts written, after the coming of Europeans, of oral traditions. It is Miguel Leon-Portilla s intention "to bring to contemporary readers an understanding of the marvelous world of symbolism... This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed crit... |
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134,73 zł |
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures Volume 8
ISBN: 9780806125619 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse.
Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native A... |
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134,73 zł |
Other Destinies, 3: Understanding the American Indian Novel
ISBN: 9780806126739 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 3 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to traditional American Indian oral literature as well as their differences from mainstream Euroamerican literature. In the following chapters he looks at the novels of John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy...
Volume 3 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written be...
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134,73 zł |
The Massacre at Sand Creek, 16: Narrative Voices
ISBN: 9780806129907 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyennes by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory and murdered almost two hundred men, women, and children. In The Massacre at Sand Creek, Bruce Cutler retells, in a powerful narrative, the events surrounding this atrocity. We hear the voices of the white participants, such as Colonel John Chivington, who planned and led the surprise attack, and Captain Silas Soule, the only officer who refused to attack. We are also given the voices of the Cheyennes - voices that historical documents do not... In the dawn of November 29, 1864, a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyennes by Sand Creek in southeast Colorado Territory... |
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89,25 zł |
Stories That Make the World, Volume 218: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest
ISBN: 9780806131313 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By using verse form and visual clues indicating pauses, intonations, and gestures, anthropologist Rodney Frey permits readers to hear the oral literature of narrators from the Coeur d'Alene, Crow, Klikitat, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Sanpoil, and Wasco people today in Washington, northern Idaho, and Montana. He places each of the twenty-three narratives in its larger cultural, literary, and expressive context, making this anthology an important resource both for American Indian people and for non-Native scholars and general readers. A glossary and a lesson-plan appendix facilitate the book's use... By using verse form and visual clues indicating pauses, intonations, and gestures, anthropologist Rodney Frey permits readers to hear the oral lite... |
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134,73 zł |
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales
ISBN: 9780806136295 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Totkv Mocvse/New Fire" presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed Swanton to record Creek legends and myths. Gouge's manuscript lay in the National Anthropological Archives for eighty-five years until two Creek-speaking sisters, Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt, and linguist Jack B. Martin, began translating and editing the document. In "Totkv Mocvse/New Fire,... "Totkv Mocvse/New Fire" presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in C... |
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160,07 zł |
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales - audiobook
ISBN: 9780806136301 / Angielski / Compact Disc Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Creek (Muskogee) author Earnest Gouge and makes available for the first time--in Creek and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. The stories cover many themes, from the humorous allegories of Rabbit, Wolf, and other personified animals to hunting stories designed to frighten a nighttime audience.
Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Creek (Muskogee) author Earnest Gouge and makes available for the first time--in Creek and English--the myt...
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199,08 zł |
Silko: Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman
ISBN: 9780806137254 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. She also grew up in a household where books were cherished and reading at the dinner table was not deemed rude, but instead was encouraged. In his examination of Silko's award-winning literature, Brewster E. Fitz explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word, revealing how it carries over from Silko's upbringing and plays out in her writings. Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. She also grew up in a household where books were che... |
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134,73 zł |
Living Sideways: Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions
ISBN: 9780806137964 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the twenty-first century. In "Living Sideways," Franchot Ballinger provides the first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of North American Indian tricksters. While honoring their diversity and complexity, he challenges stereotypical Euro-American treatments of tricksters. Drawing from the most influential scholarship on Native... Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vib... |
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American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s
ISBN: 9780806137988 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A survey of two centuries of Indian political writings
A survey of two centuries of Indian political writings
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163,98 zł |
Popol Vuh, 2: Literal Poetic Version Translation and Transcription
ISBN: 9780806138411 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A literal translation that preserves the poem's original structure This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line English translation of the Popol Vuh, capturing the beauty, subtlety, and high poetic language characteristic of K'iche'-Maya sacred writings. By arranging the work according to its poetic structure, Christenson preserves the poem's original phraseology and grammar, allowing subtle nuances of meaning to emerge.
A literal translation that preserves the poem's original structure This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line English translation of the Popo...
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225,70 zł |
Learning to Write Indian: The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature
ISBN: 9780806138527 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present" Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to kill their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In "Learning to Write Indian, " Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of... "Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present" Indian boarding schools w... |
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134,73 zł |
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Cannons
ISBN: 9780807046418 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's work, from powerful critiques of Western social constructs to astute analyses of Native American literature of the late twentieth century, as well as the deeply personal history from which her feminist-centered spiritual wisdom emerges.
Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons Off the Reservation gives us the best of Allen's work, from powerful critiques of Wester...
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135,01 zł |
Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780807130490 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. In it, Barbara Ladd argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined "American" literature, but must also be understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish colonialism bestowed on the Deep South and the Mississippi River Valley, specifically with respect to the very different ways... Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum nov... |
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110,31 zł |