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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ella Cara Deloria |
ISBN: | 9780803219045 0803219040 |
OCLC Number: | 1074706404 |
Description: | XXXVI, 251 S. |
Contents: | IntroductionPublisher's PrefaceWaterlilyBiographical Sketch of the AuthorAfterwordIndex |
Series Title: | Bison books |
Responsibility: | Ella Cara Deloria. |
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"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction."-Kirkus * Kirkus * "[Deloria's] novel is a distinguished work of literature at the same time that it is an important exercise in historical reconstruction, based on her wide and deep study of Dakota texts."-World Literature Today * World Literature Today * "Waterlily is by one who knows the culture from within, and in its instruction about Dakota ethnography the book strikes me . . . as wonderfully fine. Day to day life of the traditional Dakota is rendered in sympathetic detail."-Arnold Krupat, The Nation -- Arnold Krupat * Nation * "Deloria tells universal truths cast in an authentic framework of early nineteenth-century Plains Indian society. . . . The feminine point of view is genius."-Journal of the West * Journal of the West * "No one is better qualified than Deloria to draw together a series of Sioux female characters such as the ones central to this novel. . . . Deloria was bilingual as well as bicultural. Through her work we see the value of the insider's perspective as a bridge of understanding for those outside the culture."-Ines Talamantez, Los Angeles Times * Los Angeles Times * Read more...

