Dine bahane'- The Navajo Creation Story
Zolbrod, Paul G
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition.Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
年:
1987
出版社:
University of New Mexico Press
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
0826310435
ISBN 13:
9780826310439
文件:
RAR, 399 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1987