A Great Plains Reader In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the rea
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| Title | : | A Great Plains Reader |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803288530 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 730 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-07-01 |
| Genre | : |
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore changes that would embolden the people of the Plains to continue to call home this place they have learned to value in spite of its persistent challenges. The infinite variety of the Great Plains landscape and its people unfolds in works by writers as diverse as Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), Langston Hughes, Wes Jackson, Garrison Keillor, William Least Heat-Moon, Kathlee
Editorial : From Booklist The land of linear horizons, the Great Plains summon imagination from any writer who would set a poem, novel, or essay in them. From the explorers, settlers, and Native Americans who have done so, the editors anchor this anthology with famous scriveners such as James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and Louise Erdrich, as well as a wealth of authors far less famed. No matter the author's reputation, the vast and capricious land influences every piece here, which Quantic and Hafen arrange in conventional groupings. A straight-up look-of-the-land section opens the volume, exemplified by a passage from William Least Heat-Moon's wonderful, deep-drilling PrairyErth (1991). The experience of the Plains Indians is represented not only by the classic writings of Black Elk but also by powerful recollections of the vanished life by Zitkala-Sa, active in the early 1900s. With a section on literature inspired by the settler experience (e.g., O. E. Rolvaag's novels), this treasur
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