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This volume brings together writings by 10 Californian Native Americans. The work includes stories, performance art texts and an essay on Native American cuisine, but the primary form is poetry. Janice Gould's "We Exist" expresses the urgent impulse behind this work: "Our writers try to counteract the history / that says we are dead, a conquered People. / But our words are like a shout in a blizzard." Yet if the recovery and celebration of culture and indictment of the oppressor seem to be drowned out by an uncaring mass culture, Wendy Rose's "For the Scholar Who Wrote a Book About the 'American Indian Literary Renaissance' " points out the danger of mass appeal, that the mainstream treats Native American literature as if it only abruptly came into existence when non-Native Americans noticed it. Some of the poetry here is complex, lyrical and political, influenced not only by Native American traditions but by the mainstream of English and American poetry. William Oandasan's "Round Valley Songs I" ("an emptied bottle of Coors / ditched in moonlight at Inspiration Point / mirrors the faces of drunkards / cold like snow") evoke present as well as past tragedy, and the nobility of the modern survivor as well as the ancestor. The disappointment of the anthology is that the editor's introduction fails to contextualize or illuminate these complexities for the reader.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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In this anthology of poetry and fiction, ten Native Americans of California Indian ancestry illuminate aspects of their respective native cultures in works characterized by a profound love of place and people, as well as by anger over political oppression and social problems
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This volume brings together writings by 10 Californian Native Americans. The work includes stories, performance art texts and an essay on Native American cuisine, but the primary form is poetry. Janice Gould's "We Exist" expresses the urgent impulse behind this work: "Our writers try to counteract the history / that says we are dead, a conquered People. / But our words are like a shout in a blizzard." Yet if the recovery and celebration of culture and indictment of the oppressor seem to be drowned out by an uncaring mass culture, Wendy Rose's "For the Scholar Who Wrote a Book About the 'American Indian Literary Renaissance' " points out the danger of mass appeal, that the mainstream treats Native American literature as if it only abruptly came into existence when non-Native Americans noticed it. Some of the poetry here is complex, lyrical and political, influenced not only by Native American traditions but by the mainstream of English and American poetry. William Oandasan's "Round Valley Songs I" ("an emptied bottle of Coors / ditched in moonlight at Inspiration Point / mirrors the faces of drunkards / cold like snow") evoke present as well as past tragedy, and the nobility of the modern survivor as well as the ancestor. The disappointment of the anthology is that the editor's introduction fails to contextualize or illuminate these complexities for the reader.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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In this anthology of poetry and fiction, ten Native Americans of California Indian ancestry illuminate aspects of their respective native cultures in works characterized by a profound love of place and people, as well as by anger over political oppression and social problems
See all Editorial Reviews
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- Surviving Through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs by Herbert W. Luthin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint by June Jordan on page 91
- Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Michael Kowalewski in Back Matter
- Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes (California Legacy Book) by Terry Beers in Back Matter
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