Name: American Indian Stories (en Inglés)
SKU: 66772992
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Author: Zitkala-Sa; Shuck, Kim

portada American Indian Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Aunt Lute Books

Autor

Zitkala-Sa; Shuck, Kim

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

120

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781951874148

American Indian Stories (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "American Indian Stories (en Inglés)"

American Indian Stories is a landmark of Native American Literature and a searing account of childhood, education, and survival at the crossroads of Indigenous tradition and U.S. assimilation policy. Written at the turn of the twentieth century by Yankton Dakota writer and activist Zitkala-Sa, this assemblage of legends, tales, allegories, essays, and documentations traces her journey from the freedom of reservation life to the rigid discipline of boarding school, exposing with clarity and quiet fury the cultural violence embedded in "civilizing" institutions. Through vivid and intimate prose, Zitkala-Sa negotiates what her own mixed-race Indigeneity means to her and unabashedly makes demands for Native rights, offering a reading experience at once deeply personal and powerfully political. Her stories capture moments of wonder, loss, resistance, and awakening, painting an enduring portrait of a young Native woman learning to name injustice--and herself--within a society determined to silence her. This new edition features an introduction and short story/beadwork composition/poem by leading contemporary Native poet Kim Shuck, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, who situates American Indian Stories within both its historical moment and its urgent relevance today. Shuck explores her own mixed-race Indigeneity and the potential for children of oppressed cultures to find themselves in the place of friction where the colonizer culture meets theirs. A foundational text of American literature, American Indian Stories remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the past--and present--of Indigenous experience in the United States.