Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140216Author Associate Professor of English James H CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of...

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982046791Author Punyashree PandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bauu InstitutePublisher Bauu InstituteWeight(grams) 332g

The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, 'the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983936527Author Brainard CheneyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Mmjw BookhousePublisher Mmjw BookhouseWeight(grams) 156g

The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before...

Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central Mexico. Franciscan missionaries,...

The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979496455Author Dick HeaberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Orange House BooksPublisher Orange House BooksWeight(grams) 229g

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to...

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal...

Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the...

Mediation"" is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on the novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214220Author Colleen G EilsFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256190Author Cari M CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 290g

The years between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and the 1971 reemergence of the Cherokee Nation are often seen as an intellectual, political, and literary ""dark age"" in Cherokee history. In Stoking the Fire, Kirby Brown brings to light a rich array of...

Gerald Vizenor, the most prolific Native American writer of this century, has produced more than twenty-five books in genres as varied as fiction, journalism, haiku, and literary theory. The first book-length study devoted to this important author,...

Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the presentIndian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located...

This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line English translation of the Popol Vuh, capturing the beauty, subtlety, and high poetic language characteristic of K'iche'-Maya sacred writings. By arranging the work according to its poetic structure,...

Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American...

The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883121535Author Juan Bautista SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual...

One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Helen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779416711Author Shalom The God King AvrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632936394Author Herbert Joseph SpindenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632935908Author Mary AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 467g

Though mystery, crime, and detective fiction are some of the most popular genres in the world, little scholarship currently exists regarding Native American writers and how they add new dimensions to this widely read literary form. Rather, the majority...

From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this...

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and...

Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in...

This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the...

The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The...

In Now I Know Only So Far, sociolinguist and ethnopoetic scholar Dell Hymes examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures and how they can best be approached and appreciated. Such narratives, Hymes argues, are ways of making...

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913270073Author Gene Meany HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone Press

This text examines the literary endeavour of five of the most prominent Native American writers from the turn of the 19th century: Charles Eastman, Gertrude Bonin, Luther Standing Bear, Nicholas Black Elk and Ella Deloria.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913270844Author Phillips KlossFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 214g