We've Been Here Before: Women in Creation Myths and Contemporary Literature of the Native American Southwest

by Maria Moss

Overview

"This work deals specifically with the oftentimes overlooked woman-figure in contemporary American Indian literature. By linking the female characters on N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel House Made of Dawn and his most recent book The Ancient Child, Leslie M. Silko's Ceremony, and Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows to creator-goddesses of the Navajo and Pueblo origin myths, this book both uncovers the significance of the novels' female aspects and adds another dimension to the role and function of the male characters. "

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783894739287
Publisher:	Lit Verlag
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	North American Studies , #1
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

A doctoral dissertation exploring the role of women in four contemporary Native American novels and in the creation myths of the Southwest. Reviews the socio-historical and philosophic-literary concepts of Native America and the ethnography of the Southwest, and discusses philosophy, oral tradition, and reality and mythology in relation to Native literature. The novelists under discussion are N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Paula Gunn Allen. No index. Distributed by Westview. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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