From Booklist
After creation and emergence, the first two major themes of the sacred lore of the Keres Pueblo, comes migration, the tradition to which Native American feminist scholar Allen claims allegiance. Her own legacy embraces three migration strands: Maronite Lebanese and Celtic Scots as well as Laguna Pueblo. Standing at these ethnic crossroads, refusing to be confined to any reservation, literal or figurative, Allen views the boundary where Native American cultures and Western civilization meet. In a series of essays that explore this boundary from a female-centered perspective, she proclaims the frontier a site of spiritual conflict and challenges; takes on the issue of how Native Americans assert themselves in an Indian country engulfed by white culture; and depicts Indians as plural and pervasive--" like the goddesses and gods." In other essays, she explores Native American literature and reflects on her personal "un-bounded" relation to the world. Intelligent critique from a renegade spirit who can inspire us all to see what the global prospects are "off the reservation." Philip Herbst
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From Library Journal
Poet, novelist, feminist, and English professor (UCLA), Allen draws on her experiences as a woman of mixed Laguna and Lebanese heritage to critique contemporary American culture from the perspective of one who views it from the margins. The resulting essays are political, spiritual, and ecological in thrust yet sometimes intensely personal, as when she reflects on her Lebanese roots or her return to Laguna Pueblo after a long absence. In spite of occasional quirky and disputable conclusions like "vegetarianism inevitably accompanies misogyny, racism, tyranny, genocide, and infanticide," Allen's writings are thought-provoking and informative. Recommended for all academic libraries and public libraries with women's studies and Native American collections.?Faye Powell, Portland State Univ. Lib., OR
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Pressestimmen
Gunn Allen submerges deep in the waters of history and returns bearing words and legends of the past. —Gabrielle Shaw, Foreword
"Allen is a pathfinder. . . . As significant as any who have come before." —Quannah Karvar, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"She expands the academic discussion with personal accounts of her life experiences as a mixed-blood Laguna Indian/Lebanese American. . . . Creative, imaginative, yet well-argued." —P. Jane Hafen, MultiCultural Review
"Intelligent critique from a renegade spirit who can inspire us all to see what the global prospects are 'off the reservation.'" —Philip Herbst, Booklist
"Allen is a pathfinder. . . . As significant as any who have come before." —Quannah Karvar, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"She expands the academic discussion with personal accounts of her life experiences as a mixed-blood Laguna Indian/Lebanese American. . . . Creative, imaginative, yet well-argued." —P. Jane Hafen, MultiCultural Review
"Intelligent critique from a renegade spirit who can inspire us all to see what the global prospects are 'off the reservation.'" —Philip Herbst, Booklist
Kurzbeschreibung
In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world. Through her own history and that of other Native peoples, she searches for a connection that will link the eco-spiritual and implicitly multicultural heritage to the demands of an increasingly global and culturally unilateral community.
