Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807081000 ISBN 13: 9780807081006

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Gathers tribal narratives collected by anthropologists and modern stories by Indian women writers

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

sive....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.

About the Author:

Paula Gunn Allen (1939–2008) was a professor of Native American studies/ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of Skins and Bones, WYRDS, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, and The Woman Who Owned the Shadows.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807081000
• ISBN 13: 9780807081006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Allen Paula Gunn