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Tracks on a Page - Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works (Hardcover, New): Frances Washburn Tracks on a Page - Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works (Hardcover, New)
Frances Washburn
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book details the intersections between the personal life and exceptional writing of Louise Erdrich, perhaps the most critically and economically successful American Indian author ever. Known for her engrossing explorations of Native American themes, Louise Erdrich has created award-winning novels, poetry, stories, and more for three decades. Tracks on a Page: Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works examines Erdrich's oeuvre in light of her experiences, her gender, and her heritage as the daughter of a Chippewa mother and German-American father. The book covers Erdrich from her birth to the present, offering fresh information and perspectives based on original research. By interweaving biography and literary analysis, the author, who is herself Native American, gives readers a complete and nuanced understanding of the ways in which Erdrich's identity as a woman and an American Indian have influenced her life and her writing. Tracks on a Page is the first, book-length work to approach Erdrich and her works from a non-Euro-Western perspective. It contextualizes both life and writing through the lenses of American Indian history, politics, economics, and culture, offering readers new and intriguing ways to appreciate this outstanding author. Chronological organization takes the reader from Erdrich's childhood, through her years at Dartmouth College, her personal life, and her career as a writer

An Endangered Species - A Novel: Frances Washburn An Endangered Species - A Novel
Frances Washburn
R625 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beautiful and Useful Articles You Can Easily Weave (Paperback): Frances Washburn Beautiful and Useful Articles You Can Easily Weave (Paperback)
Frances Washburn; Illustrated by Nina Granada
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stories of the Sioux (Paperback, New Edition): Luther Standing Bear Stories of the Sioux (Paperback, New Edition)
Luther Standing Bear; Introduction by Frances Washburn
R244 R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Save R40 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories honor not only the buffalo but also the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual men and women.

Elsie's Business (Paperback): Frances Washburn Elsie's Business (Paperback)
Frances Washburn
R468 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, the young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her childhood and, perhaps, in the depths of her experience to uncover the deepest mystery of all. In Elsie's Business, Elsie's search through her own memories ultimately intersects with the search of a stranger who is seeking Elsie's story. A picture emerges of a poor child, half black and half Native, whose mother has barely eked out a living for the two of them by tanning deerskins and cleaning houses. Rebuilding her life in a different town as a housekeeper, tanner, and beader of moccasins and bags, much like her mother, the taciturn Elsie finds modest comfort and connections among the white people who employ and befriend her. But her peace is fleeting, for someone from her past or possibly her present would like to see her silenced completely. A mystery of mesmerizing suspense and sadness, Elsie's Business weaves the story of a ravaged woman into the traditional tales of her people to create a vivid sense of communities bound by storytelling and understanding and sundered by ignorance and silence. English at the University of Arizona.

The Sacred White Turkey (Paperback): Frances Washburn The Sacred White Turkey (Paperback)
Frances Washburn
R533 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R88 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is nothing particularly noteworthy about an Easter turkey. But when the turkey is stark white and appears on Easter Sunday on the doorstep of a Lakota medicine woman and her teenage granddaughter, it is clearly out of the ordinary. Taking turns, Stella and her grandmother, Hazel Latour, tell the story of what follows as the mysterious turkey stirs up discord on the reservation, where some greet it as "wakan," holy and sacred because of its coloring and timing, and others dismiss it as inexplicable but unimportant, while a less reputable local healer views it as a clear challenge to his standing. A tour de force of storytelling, "The Sacred White Turkey" is at once remarkably entertaining, rich with suspense and humor, and deeply philosophical, exploring questions of spirituality and power, abuse and trickery, all within a framework that embraces both Native and Catholic traditions. As the Latours find themselves the target of escalating violence, embroiled in a BIA leasing scandal, and witnesses to a turkey crucifixion, readers will find themselves thoroughly engaged in the unfolding mystery and meaning of the sacred white turkey.

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