Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story

by Paul G. Zolbrod

Overview

This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition.

Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826310439
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	12/01/1987
Series:	Navajo Creation Story
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	505,142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.96(d)

About the Author

Paul G. Zolbrod is adjunct professor of humanities at the Crownpoint, New Mexico Campus of Diné College, the Navajo Nation Tribal College. He also served as senior curator at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico, 1994-1997.

Editorial Reviews

aA fine literary rendition that appears to approximate the traditional Navajo storytelling style better than any other English version.a

A fine literary rendition that appears to approximate the traditional Navajo storytelling style better than any other English version.

"A fine literary rendition that appears to approximate the traditional Navajo storytelling style better than any other English version."

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