Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women

by Hertha D. Sweet Wong (Editor), Lauren Stuart Muller (Editor), Jana Sequoya Magdaleno (Editor)

Overview

The fifteen Native women writers in Reckonings document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. Their stories are vital testaments of our times. Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by a select number of both famous and lesser known Native women writers in what is now the United States. Here you will find much-loved stories, many made easily accessible for the first time, and vibrant new stories by well-known contemporary Native American writers as well as fresh emergent voices. These stories share an understanding of Native womens lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure against all odds. Reckonings features short stories by: Paula Gunn Allen, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Beth E. Brant, Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Reid Gomez, Janet Campbell Hale, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Misha Nogha, Beth H. Piatote, Patricia Riley, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Anna Lee Walters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190283148
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/11/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Hertha D. Sweet Wong is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography; editor of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook; and co-editor with John Elder of Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World. Jana Sequoya Magdaleno lives in Northern California where her focus is on Native community health and healing practices. Lauren Stuart Muller teaches at City College of San Francisco, where she chairs the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. She is the editor of June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint

Table of Contents

Introduction     xiii
Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)
Burned Alive in the Blues     3
Deer Woman     17
Beth E. Brant (1941-)
Turtle Gal     27
Swimming Upstream     38
Diane Glancy (1941-)
Minimal indian     47
Stamp Dance     54
An American Proverb     59
Anna Lee Walters (1946-)
Buffalo Wallow Woman     63
Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 1969     75
Apparitions     80
Janet Campbell Hale (1947-)
Claire     87
Linda Hogan (1947-)
Descent     113
Bush's Mourning Feast     123
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-)
Storyteller     131
Mistaken Identity/Old Pancakes     143
Patricia Riley (1950-)
Damping Down the Road     153
Wisteria     166
Joy Harjo (1951-)
The Reckoning     175
The crow and the snake     182
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky     185
The Flood     189
Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century     192
Anita Endrezze (1952-)
Grandfather Sun Falls in Love with a Moon-Faced Woman     197
The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves     204
Louise Erdrich (1954-)
Le Mooz     213
Summer 1913/Miskomini-Geezis/Raspberry Sun     222
Almost Soup/Lazy Stitch     234
Kimberly M. Blaeser (1955-)
Like Some Old Story     247
Growing Things     252
Misha Nogha (1955-)
Memekwesiw     259
Sakura     263
Beth H. Piatote (1966-)
Beading Lesson     267
Life-Size Indian     270
Reid Gomez (1968-)
Electric gods     281
Touch. Touch. Touching     289
Author Biographies and Bibliographies     293
Anthologies of Native American Literatures     303
Index     307