The Light People: A Novel - Softcover

Henry, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087013664X ISBN 13: 9780870136641

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2003

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Book by Henry Gordon

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"Heavy themes--cultural identity, the rewriting of history, myth making--lurk everywhere, waiting to go ponderous. But Henry keeps The Light People nimble with a steady measure of humor and a deft hand, both quick and dangerous."

..".imaginative and entertaining novel.... a touching and slyly humorous read."

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The Light People is a multi-genre novel that includes a series of nested stories about a tribal community in Northern Minnesota. Major themes include Oskinaway’s search for his parents and the legal wrangling over the possession of a leg that has been removed from a tribal elder. Each story is linked to previous and successive stories to form a discourse on identity and cultural appropriation, all told with humor and wisdom.
     Taking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People, a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques to create a multifaceted, deeply rooted, and vibrant portrait of the author's own tribal culture. Keenly aware of Eurocentric views of that culture, Henry offers a "corrective history" where humor and wisdom transcend the political. 
    In the contemporary Minnesota village of Four Bears, on the mythical Fineday Reservation, a young Chippewa boy named Oskinaway is trying to learn the whereabouts of his parents. His grandparents turn for help to a tribal elder, one of the light people, Jake Seed. Seed's assistant, a magician who performs at children's birthday parties, tells Oskinaway's family his story, which gives way to the stories of those he encounters. Narratives unfold into earlier narratives, spinning back in time and encompassing the intertwined lives of the Fineday Chippewas, eventually revealing the place of Oskinaway and his parents in a complex web of human relationships.

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 087013664X
• ISBN 13: 9780870136641
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236