description: This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
language: English
title: Dine Bahane: The Navajo Creation Story
titlecomplete: Dine Bahane: The Navajo Creation Story
genres: Language, History, Adult, Philosophy, Religion, American History, Folklore, Mythology, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 256
publisher: University of New Mexico Press