Keeping Slug Woman alive
Subtitle: a holistic approach to American Indian texts
By: Greg Sarris.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Pomo Indians -- Folklore; Miwok Indians -- Folklore; Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism; Oral tradition; Storytelling
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : peeling potatoes; title: The verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique; title: The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories; title: A culture under glass : the Pomo basket; title: Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance; title: Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women; title: Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine; title: Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms; title: Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom.