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Diane Glancy is one of the greatest modern Native American writers: this companion provides various readings of her work. Also included are an interview with Glancy herself and a bibliography…
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Diane Glancy
The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box. The characters struggle to situate themselves between what they were…
Chronicled through the diverse voices of the Cherokee, white soldiers, evangelists, leaders, and others, a historical novel captures the devastating uprooting of the Cherokee from their lands in 1838 and…
Tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle…
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Incorporating elements of fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry, Diane Glancy’s stories are experimental, sometimes surreal in form. Nevertheless they concern people who are very real, such as a colour-blind young…
Presents the story of a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman’s interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.
A mixed-blood American Indian woman, divorcTe Edith Lewis travels to Oklahoma to teach children the art and custom of mask-making and discovers new meaning in her life. (General Fiction).
A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript…
In this collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a melange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to…
In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing Diane Glancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings that considers the relationship between place and faith…
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Award-winning poet Diane Glancy’s radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job–the just man unjustly punished–into the New World.
Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding…
In this haunting novel by celebrated Native American author Diane Glancy, an unnamed man driving a lonely Minnesota highway hears the voice of the land–but he can’t make out what…
Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered…
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.
Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations–love of…
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel…
A professor hears the voices of Biblical women. She begins writing. What was it like for Dorcas to die and be brought back to life? What was it like for…
A minister’s wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that…
Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy’s stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people…
A collection of poems by a Native American poet, who articlates the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of attempting to live in both.
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Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous…
In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places…
The Ghost Dance was a late - 19th-century phenomenon among Native American groups in the West. This collection of short stories begins in the present, jumps back to the time…
Although we usually focus our attention on what seems most real, Diane Glancy shows us that the shadow of our past has substance as well. The Shadow’s Horse is a…
A depiction of contemporary life in Native America. This book presents an Indian worldview in its holistic complexity and integrity, and is an addition to the literature of white-Indian cultural…
From award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another…
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees' resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction.
The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the…
Narratives of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche and Caddo prisoners taken to Ft. Marion, Florida, in 1875 interspersed with the author’s own history and contemporary reflections of place and identity –
Poetry. But not trusting something/ not seen/ to be there when needed/ the Indian drew both legs both eyes/ so the brave would have them/ not leaving to chance/ what…
Monkey Secret collects three short stories and a powerful novella by the Cherokee-German-English poet and prose writer Diane Glancy. Her tales of Native American life explore that essential American territory…
There is a map you decide to call a book. A book of the territories you?ve traveled. A map is a meaning you hold against the unknowing. The places you…
The first Native American postmodern poetry anthology. A revival of the magic of sound.
Garrett Mostowski
Lunations isn't just a journey into the abyss of space. It's also an exploration of human courage and vulnerability. In this voyage, you will come to understand that the depths…
Unpapered brings together personal narratives of Indigenous writers to explore the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins.
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