Jarold Ramsey

Auteur de Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country

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Jarold Ramsey was born in central Oregon and grew up on his family's ranch there. He became an award-winning essayist and poet, as well as a playwright and a respected authority on traditional American Indian literature. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and the afficher plus author of numerous books, including Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country and New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon. In 2017, he received the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award for lifetime achievement from Literary Arts. He and his wife, Dorothy, live on the family ranch near Madras. afficher moins

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Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country (1977) 112 exemplaires

Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America (1983) 25 exemplaires

In Beauty I Walk: The Literary Roots of Native American Writing (2008) 11 exemplaires

New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon (2003) 8 exemplaires

Thinking like a Canyon (2012) 3 exemplaires

Words Marked by a Place: Local Histories in Central Oregon (2018) 2 exemplaires

Dermographia 1 exemplaire

The Tally Stick (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplaire

Hand-Shadows (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 exemplaire

Love in an Earthquake (1973) 1 exemplaire

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Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the… par Jarold Ramsey

A collection of Oregon Native Indian tales. I read "How the Cayuse Got Fire". A myth about how the source of all fire in Mt. Hood, guarded and tended by a demon and his sub demons, was taken by two young and crafty braves from the Cayuse tribes. They retrieve the fire and the faster brave runs down the moutainside, chased by the fire demons. He makes it to the edge of the Columbia and prays to the Creator to help him. The Creator does so, turning him into a beaver and the demons into fir trees.
This collection is a great general introduction into the local lore of the Oregon regions. It's a bit risque at times so I suggest it for teens on up.… (plus d'informations)

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gildallie | Jun 8, 2009 |

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