Susan Strauss
Auteur de Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America
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- Œuvres
- 11
- Membres
- 215
- Popularité
- #103,625
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 17
An engaging, colloquial narrative from professional storyteller Susan Strauss is paired with vibrantly colorful illustrations from Cristina Acosta, giving When Woman Became the Sea great visual and storytelling appeal. I was struck, in the course of my reading, by two things: first, that this tale reveals how important both trees and water are to the Cabecar and Bribri - hardly surprising, when one considers that they make their home in Costa Rica's Cloud Forest - and second, that it provides a welcome contrast to both the Abrahamic myth of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and the classical Greek story of Pandora, in which a woman's curiosity leads to disaster. Here, when Straus writes "Oh, how the world is changed, when a woman begins to wonder!" it is clearly meant to be taken in a positive light, a celebration of the Sea's role - vis-a-vis her curiosity (and disobedience) - in providing the blessings of the world.
The author's brief foreword, "Finding the Science in the Myth" is also very welcome, laying out the important connection between folklore and science - how the tales of the ancients were really just another way of trying to examine and understand reality. Highly recommended!… (plus d'informations)