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Diné bahane : the Navajo creation story / translated by Paul G. Zolbrod

Contributor(s):

Zolbrod, Paul G

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1991, c1984.Edition: Third Paperbound printingDescription: xi, 431 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780826310439

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

299.78 DIN

LOC classification:

E99.N3 D4513 1984

Summary: This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	299.78 DIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067310

Translated from the Navajo.

Bibliography: p. 417-431.

This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.

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