Yellow Woman

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813520053

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Yellow Woman by Leslie Marmon Silko Pdf

Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439128329

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Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko Pdf

Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable; there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths--a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.

Author : Louise K. Barnett,James L. Thorson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0826326757

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Leslie Marmon Silko by Louise K. Barnett,James L. Thorson Pdf

An exciting collection of new essays on the work of the outstanding American Indian woman writer.

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438127439

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Companion to Literature by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

Author : Paula Gunn Allen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780449905081

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Spider Woman's Granddaughters by Paula Gunn Allen Pdf

"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.

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143121282

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Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko Pdf

Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work.

Author : Lori Landay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0812216512

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Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women by Lori Landay Pdf

Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery.

Author : Inés Hernández-Avila
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114753

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Reading Native American Women by Inés Hernández-Avila Pdf

This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native American women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. This book will be of great value to researchers of Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and writing and composition.

Author : John Peabody Harrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Calumets
ISBN : UVA:X001726465

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Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California by John Peabody Harrington Pdf

Author : Cathy L. Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317942962

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Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory by Cathy L. Preston Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813523893

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Feminisms by Robyn R. Warhol,Diane Price Herndl Pdf

"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

Author : Sadeqa Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982149123

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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson Pdf

A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

Author : Karen Kay
Publisher : PK&J Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proud Wolf's Woman by Karen Kay Pdf

Proud Wolf’s Woman He rescued her from slavery…now he is captive to desire. Lakota Warriors, Book 2 Stolen from a cruel husband by the savage Kiowa, Julia Wilson’s life has gone from bad to worse. Just when she has reached the end of her endurance, salvation rides into camp. Neeheeowee, a proud Cheyenne brave who once filled her young heart with romantic dreams, has come to save her from everything—except the flames of desire that still burn. Bitter and intent on vengeance against the man who killed his wife and unborn child, Neeheeowee has no room in his heart for love. His captured ponies and treasured robes were supposed to be traded for Kiowa weapons. Instead, to his annoyance, he must trade everything for his old friend’s life. Hard as he tries to hang on to his anger at being set off his mission, he cannot deny that he yearns for the woman whose gentle, healing presence reminds him that happiness might exist beyond revenge. Her lips tease him with passion he dare not risk, for those who are long dead still haunt him. To take the love she offers risks his honor—perhaps his very life. This book has been previously published. Warning: Sensuous romance might cause one to go West to find one’s own true love.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

Author : Sandra Baringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135876906

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The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America by Sandra Baringer Pdf

Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon's Vineland, Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Pierce's The Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and symptomatic--of a metanarrative that pervades American culture.