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The sacred hoop : [electronic resource] recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions / Paula Gunn Allen.

By: Allen, Paula Gunn.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c1986Description: xi, 311 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0807046000 :; 9780807046005.Subject(s): Indian women -- United States | American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Indians of North America -- Intellectual life | Women and literature -- United States | Indian women -- Intellectual life | Indian women in literature | Femininity in literature | Indians in literature | Indios de América del Norte -- Mujeres | Literatura americana -- Autores indios -- Historia y crítica | Literatura americana -- Mujeres como autoras -- Historia y crítica | Littérature américaine -- Auteurs indiens -- Histoire et critique -- Recueils d'articles | Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique -- Recueils d'articles | Femmes indiennes -- Recueils d'articles | Indianen | Vrouwen | Cultuur | LetterkundeDDC classification: 970.004/97/0088042 Other classification: 73.06 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
The ways of our grandmothers: Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America ; When women throw down bundles : strong women make stong nations ; Where I come from is like this -- The word warriors: The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective ; Whose dream is it anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction ; Something sacred is going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature ; The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony ; A stranger in my own life : alienation in American Indian poetry and prose ; The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far ; Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women ; The wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women -- Pushing up the sky: Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today ; How the West was really won ; Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism ; Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale ; Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures ; Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.
Summary: This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times.
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Bibliography: p. [287]-293.

Includes index.

The ways of our grandmothers: Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America ; When women throw down bundles : strong women make stong nations ; Where I come from is like this -- The word warriors: The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective ; Whose dream is it anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction ; Something sacred is going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature ; The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony ; A stranger in my own life : alienation in American Indian poetry and prose ; The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far ; Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women ; The wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women -- Pushing up the sky: Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today ; How the West was really won ; Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism ; Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale ; Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures ; Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.

This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times.

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