The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826305687 ISBN 13: 9780826305688

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1981

Synopsis

Land is people. Remembering is all.

These themes pervade Geary Hobson's anthology of poetry, essays, and short stories by contemporary Native American writers. A Native American (Cherokee-Chickasaw), Hobson himself is a poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, university teacher, and ex-Marine. He knows this generation well: the writers he has selected, from the Atlantic coast to Hawaii, are for the most part young voices reaffirming the wisdom, "In remembering, there is strength and continuance and renewal through the generations."

Originally published by the Red Earth Press of Albuquerque, this broad survey of the experience, renascence, and aesthetic of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety. Readers familiar with contemporary writing will recognize the names of Silko, Momaday, Hero, Allen, Brooches, and Rose among the nearly one hundred artists assembled here. Their poems, short stories, and especially their essays titled "Imitation Indian Poems," "The Man Made of Words," and "The rise of the White Shaman," provide valuable statements of Native American writers' own assessment of their legacy within the larger context of Anglo-American life and literary traditions. Their works illumine the will to endure and to praise as it is revealed in on-Reservation and urban-landless Native American experiences.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Remembered Earth is sufficiently long...to give more than a sampling of some of the better young Indian writers and poets of today. It also marks the first major anthology done by Indians.

From the Inside Flap:

This broad survey of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0826305687
• ISBN 13: 9780826305688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429
• Editor: Hobson Gary