Full name: Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women

Author: Paula Gunn Allen Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780704342385 9780449905081 0704342383

"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 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, and contemporary short stories, many by the most accomplished Native American women writing today, including: Louise Erdrich, Mary TallMountain, Linda Hogan, and many others. Similar books: The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper The Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper Some Soul To Keep by J. California Cooper I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer The Best of Ruskin Bond by Ruskin Bond The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston