The Dream of a Broken Field
Autor Diane Glancyen 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
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
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