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Becoming Bearheart

Author : Patti A Williams
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982220778

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Sometimes, it takes profound change to move us forward, out of our comfort zone, and into the place where true wisdom lies. However, when this change comes in the form of a traumatic event, it can shake the very foundation on which one has built trust and security. In a gripping memoir, Patti Williams chronicles her life from the horrifying moment in March 1986 when she learned her mother had been murdered through the aftermath as the world she knew slowly began to fall apart. Overwhelmed with profound feelings of loss, heartache, and abandonment, Patti embarked on a spiritual journey that took her to the deepest, darkest places of her soul where she had to courageously battle to find her way back into the light and onto a path of peace. Led by the spirit of her mother, Patti discloses how she eventually connected with her inner-warrior to rediscover her personal power, the meaning of self-love, and ultimately her true life’s destiny. Becoming Bearheart is the inspiring true story of one woman’s journey to connect with the strongest version of herself and heal from personal trauma.

Bearheart

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816683395

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Bearheart by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Bearheart, Gerald Vizenors first novel, overturns OC terminal creedsOCO and violence in a decadent material culture. American civilization has collapsed and Proude Cedarfair, his wife, Rosina, and a bizarre collection of disciples, are forced on a pilgrimage when government agents descend on the reservation to claim their sacred cedar trees for fuel. The tribal pilgrims reverse the sentiments of Manifest Destiny and travel south through the ruins of a white world that ran out of gas."

Narrative Chance

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806125616

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Narrative Chance by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Hovedsageligt om de moderne, amerikanske, indianske forfattere N. Scott Momaday, LeslieMarmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, og: Gerald Vizenor.

Native American Literatures

Author : Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826415989

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Native American Literatures by Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist Pdf

Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, Native American Literatures includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught texts. In-depth analysis of major themes and issues. Signposts for further study within the genre. A summary of the most important criticism in the field. A glossary of terms. An annotated, critical reading list. This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied in Native American Literatures include: N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Louis Owens, Thomas King, Michael Dorris, Simon Ortiz, Cater Revard and Daine Glancy>

Postindian Conversations

Author : Gerald Vizenor,A. Robert Lee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803296282

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Postindian Conversations by Gerald Vizenor,A. Robert Lee Pdf

Postindian Conversations is the first collection of in-depth interviews with Gerald Vizenor, one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the Native world today. These lively conversations with the preeminent novelist and cultural critic reveal much about the man, his literary creations, and his critical perspectives on important issues affecting Native peoples at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The book also casts new light on his sometimes controversial ideas about contemporary Native identity, politics, economics, scholarship, and literature. 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 the American Book Award-winner Griever: An American Monkey King in China. A. Robert Lee is a professor of American literature at Nihon University in Tokyo. His books include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America. His edited works include Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader.

United States

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788437084039

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United States by A. Robert Lee Pdf

Aquest estudi analitza un ordre literari canviant: Amèrica com unitat i diversitat, com un ens nacional i transnacional. Els escrits crítics literaris reunits aquí ofereixen una sèrie de perspectives que tracen gran part de la geografia cultural en joc: la narrativa, l'autobiografia, el teatre, etc. Es presenten també un conjunt d'assajos i ressenyes que, amb diverses direccions d'enfocament, posen atenció als fonaments previs a Colón, a una antologia canònica nord-americana de poesia i al que s'ha omès; la narrativa llatina i als principals dramaturgs antics. Inclou entrevistes a creatius i acadèmics com Gerald Vizenor, Frank Chin, Louis Owens, John Cawelti i Rex Burns. La secció de ressenyes final ofereix una sèrie de monografies de rellevant erudició multicultural així com contribucions a l'emergent i ampli mural d'anàlisi.

Functional Performance in Older Adults

Author : Bette Bonder,Noralyn Pickens,Vanina Dal Bello-Haas
Publisher : F.A. Davis
Page : 1191 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781719651530

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Functional Performance in Older Adults by Bette Bonder,Noralyn Pickens,Vanina Dal Bello-Haas Pdf

Support the health, well-being, and quality of life of older adults! Here’s the ideal resource for students who are preparing to work with older adults. This text discusses the complexity of the aging experience, the science that contributes to positive aging, and the specific considerations that occupational therapy practitioners must bring to their efforts to support older adults. You’ll find descriptions of the normal aging process, discussions of how health and social factors can impact your clients’ ability to participate in valued occupations, and guidance on how to develop occupation-based strategies for maximizing their well-being.

Listening to the Land

Author : Lee Schweninger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820330582

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Listening to the Land by Lee Schweninger Pdf

"Looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Lee Schweninger considers a range of genres by Native writers from various parts of the United States. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the 'green' labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others"--From publisher description.

The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures

Author : Kristina Baudemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000529890

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The Future Imaginary in Indigenous North American Arts and Literatures by Kristina Baudemann Pdf

This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as both a colonial tool and a catalyst for decolonization. Central to this study is the development of a methodology that helps unearth the signifying structures producing the future in selected works by Darcie Little Badger, Gerald Vizenor, Stephen Graham Jones, Skawennati, Danis Goulet, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Postcommodity, Kite, Jeff Barnaby, and Ryan Singer. Drawing on Jason Lewis’s "future imaginary" as the theoretical core, the book describes the various forms of textual representation and virtual simulation through which notions of Indigenous continuation are expressed in literary and new media works. Arguing that Indigenous authors and artists apply the aesthetics of the future as a strategy in their works, the volume conceptualizes its multimedia corpus as a continuously growing archive of, and for, Indigenous futures.

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137344724

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The Trickster Figure in American Literature by Winifred Morgan Pdf

This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.

Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction

Author : James Ruppert
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080612749X

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Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction by James Ruppert Pdf

Mediation is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his important new theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich - Ruppert analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage, guiding Native and non-Native readers alike to a different and expanded understanding of each other's worlds. While Native American writers may criticize white society, revealing its past and present injustices, their emphasis, Ruppert argues, is on healing, survival, and continuance. Their fiction aims to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness. To that end they articulate the perspectives and values of competing world views. In particular they create characters who manifest what Ruppert calls "multiple identities" - determined by both Native and non-Native perceptions of the self. These writers use a variety of narrative techniques deriving from different cultural traditions. They might incorporate Native oral storytelling techniques, adapting them to written form, or they might reconstruct Native mythologies, investing them with new meaning and relevance by applying them to contemporary situations. As novel-writers, they also include features more characteristic of western European writing - such as the omniscient narrator or the detective-story plot.

The Wind Is My Mother

Author : Bear Heart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101640128

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With eloquent simplicity, Native American medicine man Bear Heart demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. “As a child I was taught, ‘Chebon, the way to attain the beauty in life is through harmony. Be in harmony with all things, but most important, be in harmony with yourself first. A lot will go on in your life, some good, some bad—people may argue and some will try to take control of your life—but that one word, harmony, will neutralize any problems and help your life to become beautiful.’”—from The Wind is My Mother “A compelling and important work…Bear Heart is a gifted storyteller—readers of all backgrounds will be inspired by his lessons of how to apply traditional Native American wisdom to maintain balance in today’s world…Bear Heart’s is a truthful, honest voice which has let us into his world, and our world is better for it.”—Body, Mind, Spirit

Deep Waters

Author : Christopher B. Teuton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496211118

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Deep Waters by Christopher B. Teuton Pdf

Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Diné sand paintings, and Haudenosaunee wampum belts. He proposes a theory of how and why indigenous oral and graphic means of recording thought are interdependent, their functions and purposes determined by social, political, and cultural contexts. The center of this book examines four key works of contemporary American Indian literature by N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Ray A. Young Bear, and Robert J. Conley. Through a textually grounded exploration of what Teuton calls the oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse, we see how and why various types of contemporary Native literary production are interrelated and draw from long-standing indigenous methods of creative representation. Teuton breaks down the disabling binary of orality and literacy, offering readers a cogent, historically informed theory of indigenous textuality that allows for deeper readings of Native American cultural and literary expression.

Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity

Author : Birgit Däwes,Alexandra Hauke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781315452203

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Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity by Birgit Däwes,Alexandra Hauke Pdf

11 Ecstatic Vision, Blue Ravens, Wild Dreams: The Urgency of the Future in Gerald Vizenor's Art -- Contributors -- Index

Mixedblood Messages

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806133813

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In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the environment as depicted in literature and film and as embodied in his own mixedblood roots in family and land. Powerful social and historical forces, he maintains, conspire to colonize literature and film by and about Native Americans into a safe "Indian Territory" that will contain and neutralize Indians. Countering this colonial "Territory" is what Owens defines as "Frontier," a dynamic, uncontainable, multi-directional space within which cultures meet and even merge. Owens offers new insights into the works of Indian writers ranging from John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, and D'Arcy McNickle to N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor. In his analysis of Indians in film he scrutinizes distortions of Indians as victims or vanishing Americans in a series of John Wayne movies and in the politically correct but false gestures of the more recent Dances With Wolves. As Owens moves through his personal landscape in Oklahoma, Mississippi, California, and New Mexico, he questions how human beings collectively can alter their disastrous relationship with the natural world before they destroy it. He challenges all of us to articulate, through literature and other means, messages of personal and environmental — as well as cultural—survival, and to explore and share these messages by writing and reading across cultural boundaries.