Bad Indians (Expanded Edition) (eBook)

A Tribal Memoir

Deborah Miranda (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
304 Seiten
Heyday (Verlag)
978-1-59714-587-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Newly expanded, a memoir hailed as essential by the likes of Leslie Marmon Silko and ELLE magazine.Bad Indians stands out as a classic quintessentially Indigenous memoir. Joy HarjoBad Indianspart tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoiris essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Widely adopted in classrooms and book clubs throughout the United States, Bad Indiansnow reissued in significantly expanded formplumbs ancestry, survivance, and the cultural memory of Native California.In this best-selling, now-classic memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experiences of California Indians more widely through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. This expanded editionthe first time the book has seen release in hardcover formatincludes new poems and essays, as well as an extensive afterword. Wise, indignant, and playful all at once, Bad Indians is a beautiful and devastating read, and an indispensable book for anyone seeking a more just telling of American history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: acclaimed biographies • ancestors • California • Costanoan-Esselen • Family history • hybrid memoirs • Indian • Indigenous • Indigenous memoirs • joy harjo • legacy • Memoir • Native • Native American Studies • native californians • Ohlone • revitalization • Revival
• ISBN-10: 1-59714-587-4 / 1597145874
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59714-587-9 / 9781597145879