The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions

The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions /

This pioneering work documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Paula Gunn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [1986]
Subjects:
Indian women > United States.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > United States.
Indian women > Intellectual life.
Indian women in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Indians in literature.
Indios de América del Norte > Mujeres.
Literatura americana > Autores indios > Historia y crítica.
Literatura americana > Mujeres como autoras > Historia y crítica.
American Indians > Women.
American literature > Indian authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Indian women.
Women and literature.
Femininities.
Gender expression.
Indigenous women > United States.
American literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples > North America > Intellectual life.
Indigenous women > Intellectual life.
Indigenous women in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
American literature.
Indians of North America.
Intellectual life.
United States.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
Femininity in literature
Indian women > Intellectual life
Indian women > United States
Indian women in literature
Indians in literature
Indians of North America > Intellectual life
Women and literature > United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The ways of our grandmothers. Grandmother of the sun : ritual gynocracy in Native America
  • When women throw down bundles : strong women make strong nations
  • Where I come from is like this
  • pt. 2. The word warriors. The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective
  • Whose dream is it anyway? : remythologizing and self-definition in contemporary American Indian fiction
  • Something sacred is going on out there : myth and vision in American Indian literature
  • The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
  • A stranger in my own life : alienation in American Indian poetry and prose
  • The ceremonial motion of Indian time : long ago, so far
  • Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women
  • This wilderness in my blood : spiritual foundations of the poetry of five American Indian women
  • pt. 3. Pushing up the sky. Angry women are building : issues and struggles facing American Indian women today
  • How the West was really won
  • Who is your mother? : Red roots of White feminism
  • Kochinnenako in academe : three approaches to interpreting a Keres Indian tale
  • Hwame, Koshkalaka, and the rest : lesbians in American Indian cultures
  • Stealing the thunder : future visions for American Indian women, tribes, and literary studies.

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