Band 72
The Dance Boots
Aus der Reihe
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 52.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
15.09.2010
Verlag
Longleaf on behalf of Univ of Georgia PressSeitenzahl
168
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/14.8/2 cm
Gewicht
343 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8203-3580-3
In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world.
In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break the indigenous culture. In doing so she passes on to her niece the Ojibwe tradition of honoring elders through their stories. In "Refugees Living and Dying in the West End of Duluth," this same niece comes of age in the 1970s against the backdrop of her forcibly dispersed family. A cycle of boarding schools, alcoholism, and violence haunts these stories even as the characters find beauty and solace in their large extended families. With its attention to the Ojibwe language, customs, and history, this unique collection of riveting stories illuminates the very nature of storytelling. The Dance Boots narrates a century's evolution of Native Americans making choices and compromises, often dictated by a white majority, as they try to balance survival, tribal traditions, and obligations to future generations.Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
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