Summer in the Spring - Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories

The Anishinaabe, otherwise named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are famous for their lyric songs and stories, particularly because of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the healing rituals still practiced today in the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and tales, interpreted and reexpressed here by the distinguished Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor, were first transcribed more than a century ago by pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, a newspaper editor on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.
This superb anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken.

Summary

The Anishinaabe, otherwise named as the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are well known for their lyric songs and stories. This annotated anthology aims to bring readers close to the tribe's union of natural reason and dream song, to "the memories that walk with the birds in the sky and sing across the water".

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Vizenor
• Assisted by: Gerald Robert Vizenor (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2023
• EAN: 9780806125183
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-2518-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 191 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 203 g
• Series: American Indian Literature and; American Indian Literature & Critical Studies; American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories