The dream of a broken field / Diane Glancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glancy, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America.

Glancy, Diane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet's vision and a storyteller's voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre's outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today. Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures-English and German on her mother's side, Cherokee on her father's-Glancy continues to search for a language that articulates the Native experience with both the fullness of tradition and the lapses inherent in a broken heritage. Accordingly, The Dream of a Broken Field offers a narrative that pauses and circles, connects and changes direction and travels great distances with grace only to stop sharply for a startling insight. Writing of weekend trips and long journeys, of natural landscapes and burial mounds, of Native American cosmology and a Christian upbringing, of Native American boarding schools and indigenous writers in American universities, Glancy captures the opposing demands of a hurried life and the timeless reflections of a history forever unfolding.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Book One: The Old Geography Lessons of Language; A Personal History w/ Paper Dolls, the Beginning of Travel, et al.; More Than Anything; The Names; M(other); Black House; Outlets; The Album; Discourses on Paper Dolls; The Old Geography Lessons of Language; The Girl Made of Cotton Grass; Mukluk; Holocaust; A Book of Roads; Book Two: Geographies of a Realigned Language; Native American Literature, Issues, Ou'Wash, and Creative Theory; Flatland; Soldiers as Paper Dolls; The Paper Doll Witch Trial; Terrorists; Ou'Wash

This Journey of Paper Dolls: this escape from entrapmentRe: The Native American Boarding School Policy; The Return from Carlisle; Boarding School Physics; Piecework; Geographies of a Realigned Language; The Eskimo Wars; Dichotomy; Book Three: The Dream of a Broken Field; Academia and a Sudden Retirement. A House, a Cabin, and a Summer Trip; On the Academic Front; I Am Wearing the Dialogue of Another; Costume; A Dress of Rain; A House; A Room; A Cabin; Intaglio; Rocks; I Pick Them Up in Travel; Engraved on a Rock; A Dock; The Dream of a Broken Field; Ascension Convention

Book Four: Geographies of LanguageThe Act and Question of Creative Nonfiction; A Rocky Shelf; Geographies of Language; Buffalo Nickel; Sonata; Is not telling the truth the same as lying?; Penmanship: The Return from a Conference on Nonfiction; Off the Road; Book Five: One Who Wears Moths; Faith and Writing. A Continuance of Research Trips and Travel for Teaching; Another Journey; On My Way from One Place to Another: On the Southern Edge of the Sandhills of Central Nebraska; Because; Re-entry; The Coldest Night in Texas; T(ravel); The Mound Builders; The Shape of Privacy; One Who Wears Moths

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613664495

9781280687556

128068755X

9780803236073

0803236077

OCLC:

742517460