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- catalog abstract "Exploring such themes as land, language, and identity, Momaday recalls the moving stories of his Kiowa grandfather and Kiowa ancestors, recollects a boyhood spent partly at Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, and ponders the circumstances of history and Indian-White relations as we inherit them today. Collecting thirty-two essays and articles, The Man Made of Words attempts to fashion a definition of American literature as we have not interpreted it before and explores a greater understanding of the relationship between humankind and the physical world we inhabit.".
- catalog contributor b10176187.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Exploring such themes as land, language, and identity, Momaday recalls the moving stories of his Kiowa grandfather and Kiowa ancestors, recollects a boyhood spent partly at Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, and ponders the circumstances of history and Indian-White relations as we inherit them today. Collecting thirty-two essays and articles, The Man Made of Words attempts to fashion a definition of American literature as we have not interpreted it before and explores a greater understanding of the relationship between humankind and the physical world we inhabit.".
- catalog description "Pt. 1. The man made of words. The arrow maker -- The native voice in American literature -- To save a great vision -- A first American views his land -- An American land ethic -- On Indian-white relations : a point of view -- The morality of Indian hating ; Afterword -- The centaur complex -- A divine blindness : the place of words in a state of grace -- The American West and the burden of belief -- pt. 2. Essays in place. Sacred places -- Revisiting sacred ground -- Navajo place names -- Sacred images -- Zagorsk : to the spiritual center of Russia -- On Bavarian byways -- Granada : a vision of the unforeseen -- New Mexico : passage into legend -- The homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek -- pt. 3. The storyteller and his art. When the stars fell -- The Indian dog -- The photograph -- An encounter in Greenland -- A turning point -- Quincy Tahoma -- Jay Silverheels -- One morning in Oklahoma -- I wonder what will happen to the land -- The toll road -- Graceful and at ease -- An element of piety -- Chopetl -- Teresita -- The head of a man -- The physicians of Trinidad -- The dark priest of Taos -- The octopus -- Dreaming in place.".
- catalog extent "ix, 211 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312155816".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Civilization.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Literary collections.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.O47 M66 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. 1. The man made of words. The arrow maker -- The native voice in American literature -- To save a great vision -- A first American views his land -- An American land ethic -- On Indian-white relations : a point of view -- The morality of Indian hating ; Afterword -- The centaur complex -- A divine blindness : the place of words in a state of grace -- The American West and the burden of belief -- pt. 2. Essays in place. Sacred places -- Revisiting sacred ground -- Navajo place names -- Sacred images -- Zagorsk : to the spiritual center of Russia -- On Bavarian byways -- Granada : a vision of the unforeseen -- New Mexico : passage into legend -- The homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek -- pt. 3. The storyteller and his art. When the stars fell -- The Indian dog -- The photograph -- An encounter in Greenland -- A turning point -- Quincy Tahoma -- Jay Silverheels -- One morning in Oklahoma -- I wonder what will happen to the land -- The toll road -- Graceful and at ease -- An element of piety -- Chopetl -- Teresita -- The head of a man -- The physicians of Trinidad -- The dark priest of Taos -- The octopus -- Dreaming in place.".
- catalog title "The man made of words : essays, stories, passages / N. Scott Momaday.".
- catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
- catalog type "text".