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The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions / Paula Gunn Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c1986.Description: xi, 311 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0807046000 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 970.004/97/0088042 19
LOC classification:
  • E98.W8 A44 1986
Contents:
pt. 1. The ways of our grandmothers. Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America -- When women throw down bundles : strong women make strong nations -- Where I come from is like this -- pt. 2. The word warriors. The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective -- Whose dream is it anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction -- Something sacred is going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature -- The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- A stranger in my own life : alienation in American Indian poetry and prose -- The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far -- Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women -- This wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women -- pt. 3. Pushing up the sky. Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today -- How the West was really won -- Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism -- Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale -- Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures -- Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks E98.W8A44 1986 1 Available 33710000026067

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [287]-293.

WAR, NEWBERY,

pt. 1. The ways of our grandmothers. Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America -- When women throw down bundles : strong women make strong nations -- Where I come from is like this -- pt. 2. The word warriors. The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective -- Whose dream is it anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction -- Something sacred is going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature -- The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- A stranger in my own life : alienation in American Indian poetry and prose -- The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far -- Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women -- This wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women -- pt. 3. Pushing up the sky. Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today -- How the West was really won -- Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism -- Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale -- Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures -- Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.