Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America

by Joy Harjo

Book Overview

This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over eighty writers are represented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationally known writers as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393318281
• ISBN13: 9780393318289
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Spellbinding Women's Literature

I bought this book out of my interest in Indian literature, but found that it resonated as deeply with my non-Indian womaness. Simple and clear, the writings take you all over the place and bring you back to yourself. Thanks to my Indian sisters.

exceptional range of work

I teach Native American literature. Since the publication of this book I have been unable to exclude it from my syllabus. Students almost unanimously have endorsed this choice, even when they had to shell out the money for the hardcover. Now that it is in paperback, no one should exclude it.I only regret that an anthology of similar quality of organization, focus, and selection does not exist for male and female Native writers.