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A Great Plains Reader
Contributor(s): Hafen, P. Jane (Editor), Quantic, Diane Dufva (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0803288530     ISBN-13: 9780803288539
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE: $38.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2003
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Annotation: 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 defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - General
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 978
LCCN: 2002031968
Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.62" W x 8.86" L (2.21 lbs) 730 pages
Features: Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2003 pg. 73
Booklist 07/01/2003 pg. 1859
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 106 - Strongly Recommended
 
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Publisher Description:
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, Kathleen Norris, Wright Morris, Francis Parkman, O. E. Rölvaag, Mari Sandoz, William Stafford, Mark Twain, Douglas Unger, James Welch (Blackfeet), and Canadians Sharon Butala and Sinclair Ross. From tribal histories to the impressions of travelers today, from tales of isolation and nature's furious storms to accounts of efforts to build communities, from flights of fancy to nuanced observations of the ecology of the grasslands, this comprehensive volume provides a history of the intricate relationships of land and people in the Great Plains. Diane D. Quantic is an associate professor of English and the coordinator of Great Plains studies at Wichita State University. She is the author of The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction (Nebraska 1995). P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the editor of Zitkala-Sa's Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and "The Sun Dance Opera" (Nebraska 2001).
 
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