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Feb 06, 2008
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This is a famous one so I'm not going to bother with the plot summary thing. Instead I'm just going to rant about how great it is.
Look, there are exceptions to what I am talking about here, but I'm pretty cynical about white American authors writing American Indian/Native American stories. I'm uncomfortable with the occupier telling the occupied's stories. The colonizer gets to show their liberal/progressive credentials by speaking "about" (but very often it's really "for" or "instead of") the c ...more
Look, there are exceptions to what I am talking about here, but I'm pretty cynical about white American authors writing American Indian/Native American stories. I'm uncomfortable with the occupier telling the occupied's stories. The colonizer gets to show their liberal/progressive credentials by speaking "about" (but very often it's really "for" or "instead of") the c ...more
I finally got around to reading this 1970s classic of Native American fiction, but I can't say that I would recommend it to others. The story (such as it is), revolves around Tayo -- a member of the Lagunas Pueblo people, who has returned to his native New Mexico from WWII with some serious PTSD. While serving in the Pacific, he and his cousin/brother were captured, and he saw his cousin/brother die on the Bataan Death March. Back home, the landscape is suffering a drought, and the implication i
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Great narrative style, tragic story that seems to repeat and repeat
I feel like I really didn't understand this book.
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Dec 11, 2008
Ching-In
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superawesomekt
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Monica W.
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My work is never done
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