The voice that was in travel : stories / Diane Glancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glancy, Diane.

Series:

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 33.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Travel--Foreign countries--Fiction.

Americans.

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Americans--Travel.

Foreign countries.

Voyages and travels.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 116 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1999]

Summary:

In The Voice That Was in Travel, the frictions in Diane Glancy's writing express the sense of displacement her American Indian travelers endure. Whether the characters are working or on pleasure trips, in Oklahoma, on the backroads of Arkansas, or in Germany, Australia, or Italy, their journeys are always superimposed on the memories of old tribal migrations.

In twenty stories that range in length from one-page vignettes to novellas, Glancy creates characters who are quirky and uneasy but who nevertheless are consoled by Christianity. A seamstress who uses a "machine that heals as it sews, " a ridiculed woman who sees Jesus in a bicycling rag picker, a traveler who recalls Noah while navigating her way in a foreign country during a flood -- all find spiritual refuge amid their anxieties.

Using a terse, highly original style, Glancy reveals striking insights into contemporary American Indian life. At the same time, her stories reflect the universal contemporary theme of rapid, jarring change -- the uneasy sense that we are all strangers in a strange land.

Contents:

Reaching for Air 3

Blast 8

Badlands 9

Parachute Rocket w / Flare 15

Road 21

The Birds with the Breeze of Their Wings 30

A Later Game of Marbles 31

Crossing the Specific 35

In the Burrito 41

You Know Those People Don't Talk 43

Jupter 47

The Man Whose Voice Was in Travel 48

Sumac 54

Spikes 56

The Great House 58

The Bird Who Reached Heaven 64

She 74

A Woman Who Sewed for Me a Dress That Sleeves Didn't Fit 79

There He Is Again 83

America's First Parade 89.

ISBN:

0806131578

OCLC:

40891064