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The Dream of a Broken Field
Diane Glancy
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Description for The Dream of a Broken Field
Paperback. An elegant, poetic, and experimental memoir by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet’s vision and a storyteller’s voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre’s outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today. Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures—English and ... Read more
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 story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet’s vision and a storyteller’s voice, the result is at once a virtuoso work of creative nonfiction and an exploration of that genre’s outer limits by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today. Uneasily and yet firmly balanced between European and Native cultures—English and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803234819
SKU
V9780803234819
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About Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy is a professor emerita of English at Macalester College. She is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, and essay collections, including Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea; Designs of the Night Sky (Nebraska 2002); and The Cold-and-Hunger Dance (available in a Bison Books edition).
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