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The Beadworkers: Stories di Beth Piatote
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The Beadworkers: Stories (originale 2019; edizione 2019)

di Beth Piatote (Autore)

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Fiction. Literature. Poetry. Short Stories. HTML:Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world
/> Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixedâ??genre works of Beth Piatoteâ??s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.
A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An elevenâ??yearâ??old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at collegeâ??one French and the other Lakotaâ??each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perceâ??Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining v… (altro)
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Beth Piatote, a Native American author & member of Chief Joseph's Band, has written this literary combination of fiction, poetry, & dramatic writing in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest.
This collection is moving, informative, and stunning. Wonderful collection of stories and poetry to keep in your library. ( )
  juliais_bookluvr | Mar 9, 2023 |
The Beadworkers is a collection of short stories, poetry, and drama by Beth Piatote (Nez Perce) which explores ideas of Native identity, belonging, and heritage language loss and reclamation. Summarising the book like that no doubt makes it sound very dry and worthy, but Piatote's writing is shot-through with lyricism and a bone-dry humour that I appreciated. I found the first few stories the weakest, though I'm not sure if it's that I just lacked the cultural context to grasp the point that Piatote might have been making. The collection grew in strength as I read, though, and I thought the closing reworking of the Classical Greek tragedy Antigone as "Antíkoni" was pointed and powerful. ( )
  siriaeve | Feb 27, 2023 |
This collection of writing includes a poem, a play, and 9 short stories dealing with life as a native person in current times. While some of them mention Nez Perce peoples (the tribe of the author's enrollment), other tribal affiliations are involved. I didn't notice any "fantastical" elements another reader mentioned, but there were some stories which showed the attention paid to the animals and world around them.
"Falling Crows" is an intense story, told in brief snatches, showing the return of a maimed soldier from war, the caring feelings of his family, the strength gained from recordings of grandparents speaking their own language.
The play is a spinoff of Antigone, and I imagine it is addressing her feelings about the new National Museum of the American Indian which still (?) holds items in a manner that could be considered disrespectful of the spirits of the people from whom they were taken, and creates a conflict within the native community. In "wIndin!", a board game is described as a woman creates it for an installation artwork. I'd like to play it!
I wish the book had included at least a pronunciation guide to the Nez Perce words scattered throughout as not all the letters are in the english alphabet, so it is impossible to guess their sound. ( )
  juniperSun | May 3, 2022 |
Strong collection of stories blending realism with some fantastical elements. I really enjoyed the author's short stories the most, with the play that made up the final section being my least favorite part of the collection. I thought the author was able to convey a sense of place and culture extremely well through the short story form. ( )
  NeedMoreShelves | Jan 17, 2022 |
This collection of short stories, poetry, verse, and even a play shows the author's strength of connecting themes of Native Americans past and present. I particularly enjoyed Antikoni which is a reframed version of the Greek Drama, Antigone, but set in modern times. She crafted the plot in a creative and intelligent way showing how family and traditions are sometimes above the law. I didn't enjoy all of the stories as much as this one, but I will be excited to read more by Piatote. ( )
  Beth.Clarke | Mar 1, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. Poetry. Short Stories. HTML:Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world
Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixedâ??genre works of Beth Piatoteâ??s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.
A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An elevenâ??yearâ??old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at collegeâ??one French and the other Lakotaâ??each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perceâ??Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining v

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