From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Paperback))
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806132426 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of the latest to tell the story is Morris, a member of the Tobaahi clan of the Navajo Nation and a teacher at State University of New York, Buffalo. He opens with a Navajo creation story about how the Fifth World, the Glittering World, came to be. From Publishers Weekly The story of the Native American's struggle to survive in two worlds, Native and white, goes back well before the likes of Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko and James Welch to Charles Eastman (The Soul of an Indian) and his predecessors. From there, Morris moves forward, blending myth, fiction and memoir to give readers stories ranging from the Navajo's tragic Long Walk in 1863 to a poignant tale of a lonely Navajo grandmother'
All about the journey I gotta admit I liked it!This book begins with the colorful story of how civilization came to be Indian style. The animated journey of not quite human humans as they travel through four worlds before settling down in the fith glittering world.The books then proceeds to a journey in which the narrator starts at home on the reservation and rebeliously travels the country. From living on the streets to completing a MFA from Cornell, the narrator eventually completes the physical and metaphoric inner journey back home.This book was not as mystic and symbolicially laden as its contemporary
Irvin Morris, a member of the Tobaahi clan of the Navajo Nation, is Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Scott Momaday’s The Names. Irvin Morris’ strong style, his vivid imagery, his deft handling of complex structures, and his deep knowledge of Navajo tradition combine to produce a work as powerful and enduring as Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller and N. From the Glittering World conveys in vivid language how a contemporary Diné writer experiences this world as a mingling of the profoundly traditional with the sometimes jarringly, sometimes alluringly new."Throughout the book, Morris’s command of a crisp unpretentious prose is most impressiveHis style is so low-key that he hardly seems to be trying to be ’artistic,’ yet the cumulative effect of these pieces is quite powerful. The Diné, or Navajo, creation story says there were four worlds before this, the Glittering World. With From the Glittering World, Irvin Morris has joined the ranks of great cont