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Cargando... Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North Americapor Barry H. Lopez
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. tales of coyote and other trickster beings This one's a collection of tales of Coyote, the trickster in various stories from various Native American peoples. All of the tales are short. Some are interesting, some are pretty weak. As the introduction states, these tales were meant to be told by a storyteller, not read in a tome. I suppose I could have tried reading them aloud... --J. A collection of anthropologists' versions, not direct transcriptions of oral tales, so a bit clunky and dusty, in spite of Lopez's stated attempts to improve the style. I suspect (I'll never know) that the tales are/were quite different in the telling. But coyote as culture-hero, clown, trickster and everyman--that is, as the closest thing to a representative of humans in the mythic world--comes through. And it struck me that there is probably even a bizarre and tortured through-line to Wile E. Coyote's hapless battles with the Roadrunner. (Weird as that may be, I'm not the only one to read classic cartoons as pop culture folk tales: cf. Steven Millhauser's great autobiographical satire Edwin Mullhouse. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool - Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey - often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites - he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez - National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men - has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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