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The Names: Volume 16
Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold." Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Arizona Press
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1987
- Pages: 184
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0002
- Dimensions: 8.65in - 5.70in - 0.77in - 0.57lb
- EAN: 9780816510467
- Categories: • Native American Studies• Indigenous• Memoirs
About the Author
A preeminent practitioner of twentieth century literature, N. Scott Momaday was perhaps best known for having blazed a trail for contemporary Native American writers. A Pulitzer Prize winner and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Momaday in many respects is a class unto himself. Momaday was Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona. A popular speaker, he narrated the PBS series The West.
Praise for this book
"It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials--genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school--he has built a mystical, provocative book." --Wallace Stegner, New York Times
"A Native American version of Roots . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." --Choice
"Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday] is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." --Atlantic Monthly
"With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." --Journal of Arizona History