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3) Spider Woman's granddaughters: traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women
Language
English
Description
Native American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself a Laguna Pueblo-Sioux Indian, became increasingly aware in her academic career that the writings of Native Americans, especially women, have been marginalized by the Western literary canon. Allen set out to understand why this was so and, more importantly, to remedy the situation. The result is this powerful collection of traditional tales, biographical writings,...
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A pathbreaking contribution to Latin American testimonial literature, When a Flower Is Reborn is activist Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's chronicle of her leadership within the Mapuche indigenous rights movement in Chile. Part personal reflection and part political autobiography, it is also the story of Reuque's rediscovery of her own Mapuche identity through her political and human rights activism over the past quarter century. The questions posed...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Description
"Set in Cape Breton at the turn of the century, this powerful account of a boy's first day in the mines is a tribute to the generations of miners who have endangered their lives to supply us with energy" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.