Spider Woman's granddaughters : traditional tales and contemporary writing by native American women / edited and with an introduction by Paula Gunn Allen.

Contributor(s):

Paula Gunn Allen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 1990.Description: viii, 279p. ; 23cmISBN:

044990508X

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DDC classification:

22nd ed. 808.892 SPI

Summary: 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.

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Books	CUoM Library General Stacks	Literature/Kiswahili Fasihi	808.892 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	00007674

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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.

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