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The Dream of a Broken Field

Autor Diane Glancy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2011
The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet’s vision and a storyteller’s voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre’s outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today.
 
Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures—English and German on her mother’s side, Cherokee on her father’s—Glancy continues to search for a language that articulates the Native experience with both the fullness of tradition and the lapses inherent in a broken heritage. Accordingly, The Dream of a Broken Field offers a narrative that pauses and circles, connects and changes direction and travels great distances with grace only to stop sharply for a startling insight. Writing of weekend trips and long journeys, of natural landscapes and burial mounds, of Native American cosmology and a Christian upbringing, of Native American boarding schools and indigenous writers in American universities, Glancy captures the opposing demands of a hurried life and the timeless reflections of a history forever unfolding.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803234819
ISBN-10: 0803234813
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Diane Glancy is a professor emerita of English at Macalester College. She is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, and essay collections, including Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea; Designs of the Night Sky (Nebraska 2002); and The Cold-and-Hunger Dance (available in a Bison Books edition).

Cuprins

<CT>Contents</CT>
Acknowledgments   000
Book One
The Old Geography Lessons of Language: A Personal History w/ Paper Dolls, the Beginning of Travel, et al.    000
     More Than Anything      000
     The Names   000
     M(other)    000
      Black House 000
      Outlets     000
      The Album   000
      Discourses on Paper Dolls     000
      The Old Geography Lessons of Language     000
      The Girl Made of Cotton Grass 000
      Mukluk      000
      Holocaust   000
      A Book of Roads   000
Book Two
Geographies of a Realigned Language: Native American Literature, Issues, Ou'Wash, and Creative Theory   000
      Flatland    000
      Soldiers as Paper Dolls 000
      The Paper Doll Witch Trial    000
      Terrorists  000
      Ou'Wash     000
      This Journey of Paper Dolls: this escape from entrapment    000
      Re: The Native American Boarding School Policy  000
      The Return from Carlisle      000
      Boarding School Physics 000
      Piecework   000
      Geographies of a Realigned Language 000
      The Eskimo Wars   000
      Dichotomy   000
Book Three
The Dream of a Broken Field: Academia and a Sudden Retirement. A House, a Cabin and a Summer Trip  000
      On the Academic Front   000
      I Am Wearing the Dialogue of Another      000
      Costume     000
      A Dress of Rain   000
      A House     000
      A Room      000
      A Cabin     000
      Intaglio    000
      Rocks 000
      I Pick Them Up in Travel      000
      Engraved on a Rock      000
      A Dock      000
      The Dream of a Broken Field   000
      Ascension Convention    000
Book Four
Geographies of Language: The Act and Question of Creative Nonfiction    000
      A Rocky Shelf     000
      Geographies of Language 000
      Buffalo Nickel    000
      Sonata      000
      Is not telling the truth the same as lying?     000
      Penmanship: The Return from a Conference on Nonfiction      000
      Off the Road      000
Book Five
One Who Wears Moths: Faith and Writing. A Continuance of Research Trips and Travel for Teaching    000
      Another Journey   000
      On My Way from One Place to Another: On the Southern Edge of the Sandhills of Central Nebraska    000
      Because     000
      Re-entry    000
      The Coldest Night in Texas    000
      T(ravel)    000
      The Mound Builders      000
      The Shape of Privacy    000
      One Who Wears Moths     000