Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts /

Main Author: Sarris, Greg.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : peeling potatoes
  • The verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique
  • The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories
  • A culture under glass : the Pomo basket
  • Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance
  • Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women
  • Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine
  • Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms
  • Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom.