Write It on Your Heart

The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller

Autor: Harry Robinson

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Talonbooks

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Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of...

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Autor

Harry Robinson

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2004

strony

320

EAN

9780889225022

ISBN

0889225028

Enbook ID

04755058

Wydawca

Talonbooks

Waga

510

Wymiary

153 x 228 x 19

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Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America. Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected for this volume tell from a First Nations point of view about the origin of the world; the time of the animal people; the time before the coming of the white man; the stories of power; the prophet cult and its predictions of profound cultural and economic change; and the post-contact world. The collection ends with Robinson's own version of "Puss in Boots," true in every psychological detail to the European story, but set in the ranching country of the Similkameen Valley. This collection is unique in that it chronicles not only the treasure house of a vibrant First Nations culture, but also the sweeping changes which took place in that culture as it began to interact with the new colonists who introduced a foreign language and writing to the mythic world of Coyote, Fox and Owl. As more and more of his listeners, First Nations included, understood only English, Robinson began to tell his old stories in this new language in order to keep them alive. By the time Wendy Wickwire met him in 1977, he had become as skilled a storyteller in English as he had been in his mother tongue. Robinson knew that the profound cultural changes which had taken place in his lifetime would continue and took to heart the matter of preserving the storytelling tradition. With his approval, Wickwire recorded his stories and brought them together in this critically acclaimed collection. Write It on Your Heart stands as a monument to the epic world of Harry Robinson, ensuring its survival in the many generations to come.

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