growing up game by brenda peterson citation

Ranging widely across the cultures and the regions of the West, these women relate stories of family and community, of race and gender, of commitment and displacement, of grief and repair, of spirituality and connection to the earth. The Stories That Shape Us is an extraordinary anthology of twenty-six personal essays by contemporary women writers, many being published here for the first time. |a Over the past decade a rich chorus of women's voices has emerged from the West. The village watchman / Terry Tempest Williams. Roosters and the power of love / Leslie Marmon Silko - Sister-wife / Dorothy Allred Solomon - The city I colored white / Kathleen Tyau - Black women and the wilderness / Evelyn C. Illegal aliens / Sharmon Apt Russell - Nana / Maxine Scates - The delicacy and strength of lace. Coming of age / Mary Helen Ponce - Songs of the fluteplayer. Getting to hope / Kathleen Norris - Growing up game / Brenda Peterson - Hoyt Street. A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston - Porcupine dusk / Page Lambert - Banning writ large / Patricia Nelson Limerick - Waist-high in the west / Nancy Mairs - Through dreams and shadows / Joanne Mulcahy - Dakota. Why one peaceful woman carries a pistol / Linda Hasselstrom - Episodes from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Riding the white horse home. Transitions / Janet Campbell Hale - Land circle. The harder they fall / Laurie Gunst - Bloodlines. Civilize them with a stick / Mary Crow Dog - How does the dance begin? / Judith Freeman - Born fi' dead. The unwanted child / Mary Clearman Blew - Lessons in silence / Judy Blunt - Lakota woman. Dear Uncle Vince / Shannon Applegate - Poetry and prejudice / Judith Barrington - All but the waltz. |a The stories that shape us : |b contemporary women write about the West : an anthology / |c edited by Teresa Jordan and James R. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d IOU |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d BAKER |d OCLCG |d UBC |d DEBBG |d OCL |d CLZ All are united by their passion to tell the truth about their land and their lives - to tell the stories that have shaped them and that can help shape us all. Some of them are well-established, even best-selling authors others are new voices soon to be heard on the national scene. The contributors to The Stories That Shape Us are as diverse as the regions they speak from. The voices in The Stories That Shape Us have been shaped by their particular regions and cultures, but they speak to the nation, and they demand attention because they tell us what we need in order to survive. Their stories are not new, but until recently we have been unable to hear them. Against the story of the Winning of the West, of men in (and against) the natural world, these writers propose a revised narrative, one more appropriate to a world facing stark limits and ecological disaster.

Over the past decade a rich chorus of women's voices has emerged from the West.

Growing up game by brenda peterson citation