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Two Old Women
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004-06-29
Two Old Women written by Velma Wallis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-29 with Fiction categories.
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Raising Ourselves
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Release Date : 2002
Raising Ourselves written by Velma Wallis and has been published by Epicenter Press (WA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Alcoholism categories.
RAISING OURSELVES is a gritty, sobering, yet irresistible memoir filled with laughter even as generations of Gwich'in grief seeps from past to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge from the lives of the native people of the Yukon River in Alaska.
Two Old Women
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004-06-29
Two Old Women written by Velma Wallis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-29 with Fiction categories.
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
From Old Woman To Older Women
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Author : Sally Chivers
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2003
From Old Woman To Older Women written by Sally Chivers and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on the perspective of aging bodies in order to approach the study of contemporary Canadian women's fiction, the author seeks to understand body criticism in general because elderly physical experiences lay bare crucial assumptions of thinking through the body. It also investigates the mechanisms and effects of constructions of aging in order to combat the automatically negative reactions most readers have to the topic of old age.
Bird Girl And The Man Who Followed The Sun
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 1997-09-12
Bird Girl And The Man Who Followed The Sun written by Velma Wallis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-12 with Fiction categories.
With the publication of Two Old Women, Velma Wallis firmly established herself as one of the most important voices in Native American writing. A national bestseller, her empowering fable won the Western State Book Award in 1993 and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 1994. Translated into 16 languages, it went on to international success, quickly reaching bestseller status in Germany. To date, more than 350,000 copies have been sold worldwide. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun follows in this bestselling tradition. Rooted in the ancient legends of Alaska's Athabaskan Indians, it tells the stories of two adventurers who decide to leave the safety of their respective tribes. Bird Girl is a headstrong young woman who learned early on the skills of a hunter. When told that she must end her forays and take up the traditional role of wife and mother, she defies her family's expectations and confidently takes off to brave life on her own. Daagoo is a dreamer, curious about the world beyond. Longing to know what happens to the sun in winter, he sets out on a quest to find the legendary "Land of the Sun." Their stories interweave and intersect as they each face the many dangers and challenges of life alone in the wilderness. In the end, both learn that the search for individualism often comes at a high price, but that it is a price well worth paying, for through this quest comes the beginning of true wisdom.
Two Old Women An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal Courage And Survival
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Two Old Women An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal Courage And Survival written by Velma Wallis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Athapascan Indians categories.
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival is a classic Athabascan Indian tale of survival, filled with suspense and wisdom as told by Velma Wallis, an outstanding Native American writer. Her style is a refreshing blend of contemporary and traditional, and her choice of subject matter challenges the taboos of her past. Yet her themes are modern -- empowerment of women, the aging of America, and a growing interest in Native American values. Based on a legend told and retold for many generations in the remote Yukon River region of northeast Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story (with an unexpected upbeat ending) of two elderly women who are abandoned by a migrating band facing starvation because of unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game.
The Hunter And The Old Woman
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Author : Pamela Korgemagi
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2021-08-03
The Hunter And The Old Woman written by Pamela Korgemagi and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Fiction categories.
The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat. The “Old Woman” lives in the wild, searching for food, raising her cubs, and avoiding the two-legged creatures who come into her territory. But she is more than an animal — she is a mythic creature who haunts the lives and the dreams of men. Joseph Brandt has been captivated by the mountain lion’s legend since childhood, and one day he steps into the forest to seek her out. A classic in the making, The Hunter and the Old Woman is a mesmerizing portrait of two animals united by a shared destiny.
Two Old Women Anniversary Edition
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Author : Velma Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Two Old Women Anniversary Edition written by Velma Wallis and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
"No one should miss this beautiful legend." —Tony Hillerman Velma Wallis’s award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winter Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
The Old Woman With The Knife
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Author : Gu Byeong-mo
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2022-03-03
The Old Woman With The Knife written by Gu Byeong-mo and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-03 with Fiction categories.
She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely death. Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the ‘disease control’ company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present. Threatened with sabotage by a young male upstart and battling new desires and urges when she least expects them, Hornclaw steels her resolve, demonstrating that no matter their age, the female of the species is always more deadly than the male.
Old Women
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Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Old Women written by Mahāśvetā Debī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
The two stories in this collection, Statue (Murti) and The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur (Mohanpurer Rupkatha) are touching, poignant tales, in both of which the protagonists are old women. In the first, a tragic, for bidden love returns to haunt Dulah, now an old woman pre-occupied only wih filling her stomach and surviving from day to day. In the second, Andi loses her eyes through a combination of poverty, societal indifference and governmental apathy, even as she persists in her belief in fairy tale solutions. Mahasweta Devi is at her most tender in her sensitive, delicately-drawn portraits of these two old women, although her trenchant pen is as ruthless as ever in delineating the socio-economic oppression within which they are forced to survive. Though extremely readable as moving stories for the fiction lover, they also yield layers of deeper significance upon closer reading. As translator Gayatri ChakravortySpivak says: Here in this text, you ll find what Kamala Visweswaran has called women as subaltern the first story and subaltern women the second. In my way of reading there is here a solid critique of nationlism as an end in itself and a loving critique of how male-gendered nationalism can solve a young man s crisis; and of course, a very strong critique of the failure of decolonization in the second story. The realization that as time passes, for a woman, the ideology of love remains a memory but acknowledges defeat in the hands of hunger is an exquisite aporia in the first story; almost between species-life and species-being. And in the second, the extraordinary resourcefulness of this village community of women and the guileless courage and simplicity of Andi, her relationship with her eldest daughter-in-law and so on, are again a responsible narrative that offers a critique no less powerful than a merely reasonable one. How tellingly Devi outlines the limits of mere goodwill! Indeed, I m always amazed by the theoretical delicacy of Mahasweta s stories. The aporias between gendering on the one hand ( feudal -transitional, and subaltern), and the ideology of national liberation (as tragedy and as face) are also worth contemplating. Mahasweta Devi is one of India s foremost writers. Her powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996) and Ramon Magsaysay (1996) awards, the title of Officier del Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (2003) and the Nonino Prize (2005) amongst several other literary honours. She was also awarded the Padmasree in 1986, for her activist work among dispossessed tribal communities. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, translator, critic and scholar, is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Department, Columbia University. She is well known for her translations from French and Bengali into English.