Sarris, Greg.

Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts / Greg Sarris. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.

Prologue : peeling potatoes -- The verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique -- The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories -- A culture under glass : the Pomo basket -- Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance -- Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women -- Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine -- Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms -- Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom.


English.

9780520913066 052091306X 0585129592 9780585129594


Pomo Indians--Folklore.
Miwok Indians--Folklore.
Folk literature, Indian--History and criticism.
Oral tradition.
Storytelling.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology.
Folk literature, Indian.
Miwok Indians.
Oral tradition.
Pomo Indians.
Storytelling.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.

E99.P65 / S27 1993eb

398.2/089975