(M101'12) The Business of Fancydancing, Sherman Alexie
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This is an awesome book for anyone from any tribe, or for anyone who loves modern Native American culture, or has friends on a reservation... Shoot, it's great just for the quality of storytelling and poetry. There's no way I'm going to write down everything I liked, so I'll pick some of the best.
Remember this: "Electricity is lightning pretending to be permanent." p19
This comes up several times. I love the idea because it is so very true.
I remember you coming to visit us with your books of lies, when you told me you could speak German. I remember you were so proud you knew a foreign language. I remember I told you English was your foreign language and you left again. p21
This says so much about life in the modern tribes. My father is a linguist and spent several hours one time with a friend of our family from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, having him record some of the Eastern language so that it could be preserved.
I LOVED the grandmother poem on page 23 and "Sudden Death" on page 27 was awesome. There is a story called Special Delivery, starting on page 39... I don't even know that I can describe how it made me feel. So many things in this book are just meaningful or powerful or bring up thoughts or realizations that make you sit back and just nod along as you read.
If your name is never mentioned, never said out loud, erased from teh vocabulary, does it change the spelling, the inflection used in speaking the language as a whole? p81
I just can't include everything, but all of this is a start. You just have to read it for yourself. And you want to. Really.
http://www.librarything.com/review/41390089
Remember this: "Electricity is lightning pretending to be permanent." p19
This comes up several times. I love the idea because it is so very true.
I remember you coming to visit us with your books of lies, when you told me you could speak German. I remember you were so proud you knew a foreign language. I remember I told you English was your foreign language and you left again. p21
This says so much about life in the modern tribes. My father is a linguist and spent several hours one time with a friend of our family from the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, having him record some of the Eastern language so that it could be preserved.
I LOVED the grandmother poem on page 23 and "Sudden Death" on page 27 was awesome. There is a story called Special Delivery, starting on page 39... I don't even know that I can describe how it made me feel. So many things in this book are just meaningful or powerful or bring up thoughts or realizations that make you sit back and just nod along as you read.
If your name is never mentioned, never said out loud, erased from teh vocabulary, does it change the spelling, the inflection used in speaking the language as a whole? p81
I just can't include everything, but all of this is a start. You just have to read it for yourself. And you want to. Really.
http://www.librarything.com/review/41390089
