Designs of the Night Sky

Informationen zum Autor Diane Glancy is a professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of The Cold-and-Hunger Dance and won the North American Indian Prose Award for Claiming Breath (Nebraska 1992). Klappentext Diane Glancy is a professor of English at Macalester College. She is the author of The Cold-and-Hunger Dance and won the North American Indian Prose Award for Claiming Breath (Nebraska 1992). Zusammenfassung In this innovative novel! a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments The Library; Greasy Gravy; Paragraphs; There Were the Old Days of the Indian Removal; A Call; Encampment; The Dust Bowl (1); Before; 7th April! 1838; The Seven Clans of the Cherokee Nation; The Dream (1); Jesus; Lifted; The Nests of Boats; A New Sacred Ground; The Stars as Roller Rinks; Whaling; Arrival; The Parents' House; The Librarian; More of the Old Days of Removal; At the Iguana Cafe; Late; Captives; Knife Fight; The Dream (2); The Lost Boyfriend; The Outing; The Fort; The Sky Blowing with Stars; Raking; Grace; The Dream (3); The Truthettes (1); Now If I Get the Story Straight; The Bible; America; The Truthettes (2); To Kill; The Truthettes (3); Bed; Journal of Occurrences; The Observer; The Truthettes (4); The Oklahoma Twisters (Whirlwinds); Revelation; Leviathan; There Is a Voice I Don't Listen To; The Dispossessed; Crying Is My River (Psalm 42); Untitled (1); Untitled (2); The Dream (4); Buffalo Cookies; The Wake; Church Camp; A Story within a Story; Poor Sarah (1); The Dream (5); A Framed Narrative; Poor Sarah (2); Ether's Testimony at Church Camp; The Fight; Close; The Rebuilt; Cartoon; The Overhang; Nolie Starts Her Report for High School; The Other Dust Bowl; Relocation; Photo Album; The Dream of My Mother Somewhere; The Head Library; The Dust Bowl (2); Creation Myths for the Written Word; The Dream (6); Designs of the Night Sky; The Voices; Sequoyah's Cabin; Noel Starts Her First Report for College; The Spell; Indentation; Indention; Location; Intermediaries ...

Product details

• Authors: Diane Glancy
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9780803238206
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3820-6
• No. of pages: 157
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Native Storiers: A Series of A; Native Storiers: A Series of A; Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives; Native Storiers: A American Na
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature