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[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick Jan 1986

[Review Of] Silvester J. Brito. Looking Through A Squared Off Circle, Theresa E. Mccormick

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Twenty two poems shimmer with irridescence [iridescence] in Looking Through a Squared Off Circle. The interaction of shifting colors and tones in Silvester Brito's poems flood the reader's mind with the bittersweet pain and beauty of the American Indian experience.

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[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen Jan 1986

[Review Of] Charlotte H. Bruner, Ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing By Women In Africa, Virginia Allen

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Looking at the map of Africa locating contributors to this collection of women writers, one is struck by the seeming over-representation from some countries -- Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Republic of South Africa -- and the vast stretch of lands that have, apparently, produced no female with a story to tell. In her Preface, Charlotte Bruner details some of the obstacles confronting women who defy the traditions of formerly nonliterate societies, where the rigidity and permanence of the written word itself confounds a view of art as something fluid and circumstantial, where community takes precedence over the individual, where the act …

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[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe Jan 1986

[Review Of] Jane Cortez. Coagulations: New And Selected Poems, Aisha Eshe

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Jayne Cortez in Coagulations just comes right out and says all the things that need to be said, things that might only be thought about momentarily if at all. Not only does she say them, but Jayne Cortez speaks with such force and clarity that the reader is right there on the scene with her. And the scene is not pretty; there are no beautiful flowers growing in the country in the picture Cortez paints.

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[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton Jan 1986

[Review Of] Bertha P. Dutton. American Indians Of The Southwest, Charline L. Burton

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Bertha P. Dutton has updated her 1975 publication titled Indians of the American Southwest and states in the preface her objective to make this book generally readable for students, teachers, and travelers who desire knowledge, understanding, and authoritative information regarding the Southwestern Indians. She admits changes are occurring at such a rapid pace that the information with which she has updated her publication may well be out of date by the time we read it.

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[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon Jan 1986

[Review Of] Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine, Barbara Brydon

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Love Medicine brings together the stories of the Kashpaws and Lamartines, two Chippewa families of North Dakota. Two major themes, love and death, produce both the continuity of the novel and of family traditions that are the foundation of each character's life. As different individuals tell their stories, the reader is given a multifaceted perspective of the events that influence the families over a fifty-year period.

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[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson Jan 1986

[Review Of] Stephen Glazier, Ed. Caribbean Ethnicity Re Visited, David M. Johnson

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Like marine life washed up on a beach, most Caribbean peoples have been brought where they are by powerful forces outside their control. These forces include colonialism, slavery, and revolution, processes in the seventeenth and eighteenth century that convulsed Europe and whose effects spread to much of the rest of the world. Just as tidepools a few feet apart can have completely different sets of animal and plant life, Caribbean islands just a few miles apart can have completely different histories and mixtures of peoples. Mirroring the complexity of the life in these tidepools, there are myriad interpretations of the …

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[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Arts And Ethnics: Background For Teaching Youth In A Pluralistic Society, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Created to respond to an issue before art educators in this country since the early 1970s, this well-referenced work, complete with index and illustrations, accomplishes that task with reasonable success. Teachers of art have struggled for decades with curriculum materials that restrict the discussion of art history to the European tradition, labeling art of any other origin as "folk art" unworthy of academic attention.

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[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso Jan 1986

[Review Of] Linda Hogan. Seeing Through The Sun, Victor Macaruso

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A Chickasaw of mixed blood who grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Minnesota, Linda Hogan writes spare poems pulled skin tight over the bones and blood and flesh they contain. She does not exploit her Native American experience to make poems; she does not need to. Her references to "the old sky woman," "black corn dolls," and "evicted grandmothers," who walk " wrapped in trade cloth," are integrated into the sense of life which fills her poems; yet the tensions which come from having inherited two distinct traditions are not ignored: In my left pocket a Chickasaw hand …

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[Review Of] Trudier Harris. Exorcising Blackness: Historical And Literary Lynching And Burning Rituals, John Lowe Jan 1986

[Review Of] Trudier Harris. Exorcising Blackness: Historical And Literary Lynching And Burning Rituals, John Lowe

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Trudier Harris begins her impressive new study of lynching and burning rituals in black literature with a horrifying, albeit fictional, account of the three-hour torture, dismemberment, and murder (yes, in that order) of a black man and his wife. Alice Walker opens The Color Purple in a similarly shocking manner, with Celie's rape by the man we believe to be her father. The novel Harris quotes, however, was taken, detail by detail, from a real event, which she proceeds to document. The rest of her book is no less relentless in demonstrating that lynching and burning rituals were not simply …

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[Review Of] Michael P. Johnson And James P. Roark, Eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People Of Color On The Eve Of The Civil War, Orville W. Taylor Jan 1986

[Review Of] Michael P. Johnson And James P. Roark, Eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People Of Color On The Eve Of The Civil War, Orville W. Taylor

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In an overgrown cemetery in the old village of Stateburg, South Carolina, a hundred miles north of Charleston lies the body of William Ellison (1790-1860), patriarch of a remarkable clan of free blacks whose achievements belie the myth of the Old South as a society of wealthy white masters and poor black slaves. Born a slave and perhaps the son of his master, Ellison early learned to make cotton gins and at age twentysix purchased his freedom and went into business in Stateburg. Riding the crest of the cotton boom, in 1835 he bought the handsome home of former governor …

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[Review Of] Arnold Krupat. For Those Who Come After: A Study Of Native American Autobiography, Helen Jaskoski Jan 1986

[Review Of] Arnold Krupat. For Those Who Come After: A Study Of Native American Autobiography, Helen Jaskoski

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This is the second monograph on Native American autobiography, and together with Bataille and Sands' American Indian Women Telling Their Lives will be the necessary starting point for future studies in this neglected area of American literature. An introduction and four chapters on individual works, with index and selected bibliography, comprise the text; the introduction and first chapter are most valuable. In the introduction Krupat articulates two requisites for critical reading of American Indian texts: consideration of means of production (focus on the intercultural relationship between author and transcriber-mediators), and critical theory to define artistic values (here, Northrop Frye's categories …

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[Review Of] Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., And James W. Parins. American Indian And Alaska Native Newspapers And Periodicals, 1826-1924, Donald L. Guimary Jan 1986

[Review Of] Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., And James W. Parins. American Indian And Alaska Native Newspapers And Periodicals, 1826-1924, Donald L. Guimary

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American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 is a timely and useful book, particularly with growing interest in ethnicity. The work is a directory listing more than 200 titles of American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals . The names of the newspapers and journals are listed alphabetically as well as cross-referenced by tribal affiliation, location, and chronology. Following each title is a brief description listing the publications owner(s) and dates of publication. An index is included. The book describes the earliest newspapers up to 1924, when the Pueblo Lands Board Act was passed, giving citizenship to …

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[Review Of] Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The Mind Of Frederick Douglass, Kent L. Koppelman Jan 1986

[Review Of] Waldo E. Martin, Jr. The Mind Of Frederick Douglass, Kent L. Koppelman

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He was one of the foremost orators and abolitionists of the 19th century. He was also a feminist who actively worked for woman's suffrage. He was a Christian who opposed the use of the King James Bible in public schools as a violation of the separation of church and state. He was a former slave and designated spokesman for black people whose second marriage was to a white woman. Frederick Douglass was highly praised and soundly criticized by blacks and whites alike, but through it all he maintained a consistent and powerful moral voice calling upon this nation to measure …

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[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1986

[Review Of] John Reed And Clive Wake, Eds . A New Book Of African Verse, Charlotte H. Bruner

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A New Book of African Verse, edited by John Reed and Clive Wake, is actually a new edition of A Book of African Verse, which appeared in 1964 just as black literature of Africa and of the United States was gaining recognition, particularly in academic circles. The authors' intention has been consistently modest. From the first, the authors chose works from contemporary poets of French or English expression from Africa south of the Sahara. Certainly in 1964 their first volume brought attention to almost unknown poetry and was useful as " an introduction to new readers of African poetry."

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[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe Jan 1986

[Review Of] Sonia Sanchez. Homegirls And Handgrenades, Aisha Eshe

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homegirls & handgrenades is a book of poetry and prose pieced together with a multitude of colors and a variety of shapes that form a large blanket that covers many aspects of life in this country, of people in general, and of black people specifically.

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[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] Virginia Sapiro. Women In American Society, Linda M. C. Abbott

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Political scientist Virginia Sapiro's introductory-level women's studies text is unusual in the ease with which it integrates the data bases which form the foundation for its multidisciplinary approach. Although it assumes no background in the social sciences, the book is nevertheless demanding in the rigor and complexity of its analysis. Striking a balance between societal and individual concerns, the work moves easily from one framework to another, drawing content and methodology from fields as diverse as biology and religion.

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[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez Jan 1986

[Review Of] David O. Sears , Jonathan L. Freedman, And Letitia Anne Peplau. Social Psychology, Alex GonzáLez

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At a time when social psychology as a field of study has reached a new high and journals and textbooks have proliferated to meet the new demands of social psychologists and students alike, the publication of the fifth edition of a basic social psychology text says something not only about the book's endurance but also about its basic soundness. Over the years, this volume has been used by thousands of students and in many ways has set the standard for other social psychology texts which attempt to give an introduction to the field. With this edition the high standard set …

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[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl Jan 1986

[Review Of] L.G. Moses And Raymond Wilson. Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth And Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders, David M. Gradwohl

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In this volume, insights into American Indian ethnicity are presented through synopses of the lives of eight individuals. Analyses of these lives exhibit dimensions of family and kinship ties, cultural traditions, acculturation vis-a-vis the dominant society, and personal choices. The eight lives selected provide some balance in terms of geography, tribal affiliation, and gender (five men and three women). Five of the individuals were born in the 1850s and 1860s and died between 1915 and 1947; one person lived from 1811 to 1875; another from 1880 to 1949; the eighth, still living, was born in 1937.

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[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster Jan 1986

[Review Of] J. William Snorgrass And Gloria T. Woody. Blacks And Media: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography, 1962-1982, Regina E. Webster

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This annotated bibliography on black Americans in various media formats came at a time when I was searching for bibliographic information on black women. As a result, I was able to locate several titles of articles from the Bibliography that were appropriate and timely. The entries reflect variety in source content, and the use of media fields helps to catalog the publication materials.

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[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts Jan 1986

[Review Of] Henry Lewis Suggs , Ed. The Black Press In The South, 1865-1979, James B. Potts

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This volume consists of twelve essays that address the history of black newspapers in the states that constituted the Confederacy. The intent of this collection, explains its editor, is to examine the southern black press "not only as an instrument of social change but as black enterprise, black crusade, and black artistic expression" (vii).

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[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1986

[Review Of] Isobel White, Diane Barwick, And Betty Meehan, Eds. Fighters And Singers: The Lives Of Some Aboriginal Women, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Fighters and Singers is a collection of fifteen essays written about Aboriginal women of Australia. The authors, mostly anthropologists and all women, wrote of their "sisters," "mothers," and "aunts." The pieces are all informative about tribal life, but they are also warm reminiscences of relationships across cultural boundaries. Among the contributors is Pearl Duncan, the first Aborigine to become a trained teacher in Australia and a former member of the National Aboriginal Education Committee.

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[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott Jan 1986

[Review Of] C. Kamarae, M. Schultz, And W.M. O'Barr, Eds. Language And Power, Linda M. C. Abbott

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In recent years, educators concerned with issues of access and equity have supported a variety of bilingual educational delivery systems. Similarly, feminists seeking representation and recognition have advocated inclusive language and nonsexist job titles. From these and other arenas, the relationship of language and power has surfaced as an issue of national importance. In this timely collection of essays, Kamarae and her associates have legitimated and extended the discussion.

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[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee Jan 1986

[Review Of] Sandy Lydon. Chinese Gold: The Chinese In The Monterey Bay Region, D. John Lee

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Lydon's history of the Chinese in the Monterey Bay region is a monument to the Chinese who immigrated to North America everywhere. The title Chinese Gold refers to a metaphor Lydon uses throughout his account of how "through their particular form of alchemy (insight plus ingenuity plus energy), the Chinese turned what they found into gold" (p. 504). The Chinese were able to see the resources of the Monterey Bay region where others could not and developed them "to the lasting benefit of the Monterey Bay region." But there are very few Chinese Americans in the region today and there …

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[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille Jan 1986

[Review Of] Kristin Herzog. Women, Ethnics, And Exotics : Images Of Power In Mid·Nineteenth Century American Fiction, Gretchen M. Bataille

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Herzog examines literary works of the mid-nineteenth century which reverse values, transcend stereotypes, and demand a reevaluation of the roles of "women, ethnics, and exotics" in fiction as well as reality. The ethnics are blacks and Indians; the exotics Herzog defines as " strikingly out of the orindary [ordinary]" or " excitingly strange" characters. Images of women are similar to the images of the "Noble Savages" and other non-white people in that all are considered "natural," more innocent or more demonic, more devine [divine] and more terrifying than white males . So too are they viewed as more passive, less …

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[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner Jan 1986

[Review Of] Beverley Ormerod. An Introduction To The French Caribbean Novel, Charlotte H. Bruner

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Beverley Ormerod displays real expertise in An Introduction to the French Caribbean Novel. She is a West Indian herself, and she knows the background and culture of the Caribbean: its African slave origins and the present quest for pan-Caribbean identity. After post-graduate research at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris , she earned her doctorate in French at Cambridge University. When necessary, she translates the French originals into English. She also knows various creoles of the islands and appreciates the linguistic variety there. She has taught Caribbean literature for twenty years.

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[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright Jan 1986

[Review Of] Emmanuel Ngara. Art And Ideology In The African Novel, Jean Bright

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The sub-title of this enigmatic book is "A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing." The first of the two parts of the books deals primarily with definitions of Marxist aesthetics. For a serious work, not only are the cliches and terminology tiresome but the choice of quotations is unfortunate. Ngara quotes Marx's and Engel's opinion that Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Bronte and Gaskell wrote novels "whose graphic and eloquent pages have issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together." Ngara adds a pronouncement …

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[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington Jan 1986

[Review Of] Paule Marshall. Praisesong For The Widow, Delo Washington

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Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow is an account of maturation or, put another way, of a black woman's willingness to confront her emergent self. Tastefully groomed, sixty-four year old Avatarra " Avey" Johnson leaves her suburban New York home to vacation with two friends on a West Indies cruise. Her decision to interrupt her plans, shortly after arriving at one of the destinations, is a surprise to everyone. Avey is compelled to discount the material investment she has made in the trip in order to follow a mind that has been haunted by dreams of her great aunt Cuney.

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[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig Jan 1986

[Review Of] Edward A. Tiryakian And Ronald Rogowski, Eds. New Nationalisms Of The Developed West: Toward Explanation, Mary A. Ludwig

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Tiryakian and Rogowski have edited a strong and useful collection of nine theoretical and seven comparative articles on nationalism in advanced industrial societies in the West. What is new in the presentations in this work is the systematic comparison of a number of nationalist movements that have been treated hitherto as separate cases. The writers are focusing on nationalism in advanced capitalist economies rather than in developing nations or socialist industrial states, so examples are drawn from Quebec and Western Europe. A great strength of the collection lies in the richness of the analysis produced by contributors drawn from a …

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[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder Jan 1985

[Review Of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970, Wolfgang Binder

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This first comprehensive history of the Jicarilla Apaches proves an indispensible [indispensable] tool for understanding this tribe, government and Indian relations, and the history of the state of New Mexico. Veronica Tiller was, despite being part of a prominent Jicarilla family, able to strike a balance between giving the reader a wealth of detailed facts pertaining to the tribe and its smaller organizational units and placing them within the larger context of government or New Mexico state policies. The author, who used an impressive number of government documents, is modest and clear sighted enough not to claim an Indian point …

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[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker Jan 1985

[Review Of] Paul G. Zolbrod. Dine Bahane' : The Navajo Creation Story, Kathleen Danker

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Paul G. Zolbrod's Dine Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story is a revision of Washington Matthews' "The Navaho Origin Legend" published in Navaho Legends (Boston: American Folklore Society) in 1897. Zolbrod justly describes Matthews' version of this narative [narrative] as "one of the world's significant literary works," and his rewriting of it makes it accessible as never before to English speaking readers. The narrative is essentially sacred in nature, dealing with the emergence of precursors to human beings through successive primal worlds and with male and female deities who must achieve harmony, peace, and balance between themselves and throughout the world …

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