Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and poetry by Paula Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a rich array of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Maurice Kenny.
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Alan R. Velie is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and author of American Indian Literature: An Anthology, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Velie has put together a fine anthology of all different genres of Native American literature. My one qualm is that in the first edition, published in '79 (I believe), a good many of the "poems" were represented by the work of Frances Densmore: transcribed into western musical notation, along with the original language lyrics, and with a glossary of the native words provided at the bottom of the page. In the revised edition, Densmore's transcriptions are replaced with simple translations presenting the poems as purely literary works. What's lost is the strong sense of these works as songs-- performances, communal play--and the necessity for the reader to get intimately involved in the work by using the glossary to translate the song for him or herself. The new edition's translations also give no clue about the nonsense syllables the singer often slips in between the syllables of a native word--a kind of Indian doo-wop or hey-nonny-nonny.
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THIS IS AN ANTHOLOGY of Indian literature-that is, literature by Indians on Indian subjects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wicasa wakan, good fox, trickster cycle, last lecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lame Bull, Lame Deer, New York, Black Elk, Long Knife, Father Mother, Red Deer, Rainy Mountain, Wounded Knee, Scott Momaday, Yellow Snow, American Indian, Crazy Horse, Louise Erdrich, New Mexico, Frances Densmore, House Made of Dawn, James Welch, South Dakota, Greasy Grass, Love Medicine, Carter Revard, Crazy Heart, Government Printing Office, Sister Leopolda New!
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THIS IS AN ANTHOLOGY of Indian literature-that is, literature by Indians on Indian subjects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wicasa wakan, good fox, trickster cycle, last lecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lame Bull, Lame Deer, New York, Black Elk, Long Knife, Father Mother, Red Deer, Rainy Mountain, Wounded Knee, Scott Momaday, Yellow Snow, American Indian, Crazy Horse, Louise Erdrich, New Mexico, Frances Densmore, House Made of Dawn, James Welch, South Dakota, Greasy Grass, Love Medicine, Carter Revard, Crazy Heart, Government Printing Office, Sister Leopolda New!
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- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday on 4 pages
- House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) by N. Scott Momaday on 4 pages
- Love Medicine : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Louise Erdrich on page 304, page 313, and page 348
- Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Sioux by John G. Neihardt on page 33, page 154, and page 155
- Another side of Eden: A play by Craig Sodaro on page 33, page 154, and page 155
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- Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (New Americanists) by Chadwick Allen on page 126, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature by Wilfred L. Guerin on page 264, page 265, and page 301
- Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction by George A. Kennedy on page 111
- Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross Cultural Introduction by George A. Kennedy on page 111
- Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Catherine Rainwater in Back Matter
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