The Woman Who Owned the Shadows / Edition 1

by Paula Gunn Allen

Overview

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Native American Studies. "An absorbing, often fascinating world is created.not only is it an exploration of racism, it is often a powerful and moving testament to feminism"—The New York Times Book Review.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879960183
Publisher:	Aunt Lute Books
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	213
Sales rank:	701,327
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Scots/Lebanese poet, philosopher, scholar, and teacher, was born in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1939. She received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 1976; her dissertation evolved into a major work of cultural criticism, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Two volumes of her poetry, SKINS AND BONES and LIFE IS A FATAL DISEASE, were published by West End Press. A work of fiction, THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS, was published by Aunt Lute Books. She completed the manuscript for AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL a week before her death on May 29, 2008 in Fort Bragg, California.