A Red Woman Was Crying - Nagovisi Stories (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Don Mitchell's new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. The narrators are Nagovisi - South Pacific rainforest cultivators - and through their eyes the reader comes to know the young American anthropologist, himself struggling with his identity as a Vietnam-era American, who's come to to study their culture in a time of change. Beautifully written, evocative, and utterly original, A Red Woman was Crying takes the reader into the rich and complex internal lives of Nagovisi -- young and old, male and female, gentle and fierce -- as they grapple with predatory miners, indifferent colonial masters, missionaries, their own changing culture, their sometimes violent past, and the "other" who has come to live with them.

General

Imprint:	Saddle Road Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	July 2013
Authors:	Don Mitchell
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-9833072-4-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-9833072-4-5
Barcode:	9780983307242

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