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The Diné Reader
An Anthology of Navajo Literature
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- English
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eBook - PDF
The Diné Reader
An Anthology of Navajo Literature
About this book
2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities.
The Diné Reader developed as a way to demonstrate both the power of Diné literary artistry and the persistence of the Navajo people. The volume opens with a foreword by poet Sherwin Bitsui, who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people. The editors then introduce the volume by detailing the literary history of the Diné people, establishing the context for the tremendous diversity of the works that follow, which includes free verse, sestinas, limericks, haiku, prose poems, creative nonfiction, mixed genres, and oral traditions reshaped into the written word.
This volume combines an array of literature with illuminating interviews, biographies, and photographs of the featured Diné writers and artists. A valuable resource to educators, literature enthusiasts, and beyond, this anthology is a much-needed showcase of Diné writers and their compelling work. The volume also includes a chronology of important dates in Diné history by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, as well as resources for teachers, students, and general readers by Michael Thompson. The Diné Reader is an exciting convergence of Navajo writers and artists with scholars and educators.
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities.
The Diné Reader developed as a way to demonstrate both the power of Diné literary artistry and the persistence of the Navajo people. The volume opens with a foreword by poet Sherwin Bitsui, who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people. The editors then introduce the volume by detailing the literary history of the Diné people, establishing the context for the tremendous diversity of the works that follow, which includes free verse, sestinas, limericks, haiku, prose poems, creative nonfiction, mixed genres, and oral traditions reshaped into the written word.
This volume combines an array of literature with illuminating interviews, biographies, and photographs of the featured Diné writers and artists. A valuable resource to educators, literature enthusiasts, and beyond, this anthology is a much-needed showcase of Diné writers and their compelling work. The volume also includes a chronology of important dates in Diné history by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, as well as resources for teachers, students, and general readers by Michael Thompson. The Diné Reader is an exciting convergence of Navajo writers and artists with scholars and educators.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword by Sherwin Bitsui
- Map of the Navajo Nation and Dinétah
- Diné Directional Knowledge and Symbolic Associations
- Introduction
- Blackhorse Mitchell
- Grey Cohoe
- Gloria J. Emerson
- Nia Francisco
- Tiana Bighorse
- Tina Deschenie
- Luci Tapahonso
- Elizabeth Woody
- Irene Nakai Hamilton
- Laura Tohe
- Rex Lee Jim
- Irvin Morris
- Esther G. Belin
- Shonto Begay
- Della Frank
- Roberta D. Joe
- Hershman John
- Norla Chee
- Sherwin Bitsui
- Dwayne Martine
- Tacey Atsitty
- Venaya Yazzie
- Orlando White
- Byron F. Aspaas
- Jake Skeets
- Bojan Louis
- Natanya Ann Pulley
- Danielle Geller
- Rachel Heather Johnson
- Paige Buffington
- Manny Loley
- Erik Bitsui
- Tatum Begay
- Chronology of Important Dates in Diné Political and Literary History / Jennifer nez Denetdale
- Resources for Teachers and Readers / Michael Thompson
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Credits
- About the Editors and Contributors