Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0826310435
ISBN 13
9780826310439
Category
Tika
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Pages
431
Description
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition.Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
