Diane Glancy
Autore di Pushing the Bear
Sull'Autore
Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her works have won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' mostra altro Circle of the Americas, and more. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. Glancy divides her time between Kansas and Texas. mostra meno
Opere di Diane Glancy
Firesticks: A Collection of Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (1993) 18 copie
Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers of Mixed Heritages (1996) — A cura di — 9 copie
The Mask Maker: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, V. 42) (2002) 8 copie
Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) (2015) 7 copie
The Voice That Was in Travel: Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (1999) 5 copie
Mary Queen of Bees : Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696-1734] Sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church,… (2017) 3 copie
Coyote's quodlibet 2 copie
Opere correlate
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Collaboratore — 315 copie
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Collaboratore — 172 copie
A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women (1984) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Collaboratore — 102 copie
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (1987) — Immagine di copertina — 62 copie
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Sinister Wisdom 22/23: A Gathering of Spirit: North American Indian Women's Issue (1983) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Without Discovery: A Native Response to Columbus (Turning Point Series) (1992) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
American Writing : A Magazine 6 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1941-03-18
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Cherokee Nation
USA - Istruzione
- University of Missouri
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Iowa - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- Macalester College
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 58
- Opere correlate
- 29
- Utenti
- 621
- Popolarità
- #40,536
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 26
- ISBN
- 99
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 3
Glancy interprets this legend as illustrating the greed and self-centeredness that all people are capable of. It is these motivations that led the white citizens of Georgia and surrounding states, working through their governments, to force the Cherokee from their homes onto a long winter journey that would kill a quarter of them. The novel shows all that horror in action.
Is it unfair to show that in the midst of this great injustice that people on the receiving end might also act out of the exact same motivations, only with far less coercive power available to them? The two primary characters, Maritole and Knobowtee, are a husband and wife who cause each other great hurt over these months on the trail, each seeming to be metaphorically devoured by their “inner bear”. This is made very clear with Maritole, who dreams of and has hallucinations of being clawed and eaten by a bear. On an intermediate level, between that of the US Government/Cherokee relationship and a marriage relationship, relations between the Tennessee Cherokee and the Georgia Cherokee and the North Carolina Cherokee also show these motivations at work.
The title thus refers both to large, public wrongs like Cherokee Removal, and the small private wrongs that each of us might commit no matter where we find ourselves situated on the larger public matters. To push the bear, to fight against the bear, is a battle for everyone, however much power they have or do not have.
Such a battle naturally has religious connotations. The Cherokee on the trail are divided between the old ways of belief and Christianity. Cherokee medicine men argue with Cherokee clergy as each try to relieve the sufferings of the people. Cherokee wonder how those who follow the teachings of Jesus can be responsible for such great suffering, or at best just stand and watch as the detachments pass their towns. Jesus himself might wonder, but not be all that surprised, as one woman suggests:
One downside to this novel for me is the fractured multiple narrator construction. Perspective regularly shifts once or more per page. Distinctiveness of narrative voice is I think an issue.
By coincidence I finished the novel the day before the annual Remember the Removal bike ride begins in New Echota, Georgia, in which Cherokee youth ride almost 1,000 miles over one of the trails walked during the Removal.
(https://rtr.cherokee.org/about-the-ride)
3.5/5… (altro)