Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story

Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story
ISBN-10
0826325033
ISBN-13
9780826325037
Category
Social Science
Pages
446
Language
English
Published
1987-12-01
Publisher
UNM Press
Author
Paul G. Zolbrod

Description

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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