Paula Gunn Allen

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Paula Gunn Allen (born October 24, 1939 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , † May 29, 2008 ) was an American writer .

Life

Paula Gunn Allen grew up in Cubero , New Mexico . Their ancestors were Laguna Indians, Sioux Indians, Scots, and Lebanese. In 1966 she received her Bachelor of Art and 1968 Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon . In 1976 she received the Ph.D. Awarded by the University of New Mexico .

Her novel The Woman Who Owned The Shadows was published in 1983. The story is about a girl with Indian ancestry, like Allen herself. Her best known poetic compilation is Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 . She has also written several books on the Native American people, such as Spider Womans Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women

Works

Novels

  • The Woman Who Owned The Shadows (1983)
  • Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Tradition (1986)
  • Skin and Bones is a book of poetry published years latter
  • Grandmothers of the light: A mesicine woman's sourcebook (1991)

poetry

  • Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 (1997)
  • Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-1987 (1988)
  • Shadow Country (1982)
  • A Cannon Between My Knees (1981)
  • Blind Lion Poems (or, The Blind Lion ) (1974)

Academic

  • Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Canons (1998)
  • Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Women's Sourcebook (1991)
  • The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986)
  • Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs (1983)

biography

  • As Long As the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans (1996)
  • Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat (2004)

Collective works

  • Hozho: Walking in Beauty: Short Stories by American Indian Writers (2001)
  • Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994 (1996)
  • Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1900-1970 (1994)
  • Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women (1989)

Contributions to compilations

  • The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexican Pueblos , ed. Nancy Wood. (1997)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.paulagunnallen.net
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Paula Gunn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Albuquerque , New Mexico
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2008