N. Scott Momaday(1934) 1. Life and career x a novelist and a poet Momaday is a Kiow Indian, brought up on Navajo and Jemes Pueblo reservations. He was educated in the University of New Mexico and Stanford University. Following his prize-winning first novel, House Made of Dawn, he published, among other works, his memoir, The Names(1976), and his next novel, The Ancient Child(1989). Momaday likes to think of himself primarily as a poet. His is volumes of poetry include Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer(1976), and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems(1992)
N. Scott Momaday (1934-) 1.Life and career ＊a novelist and a poet. Momaday is a Kiowa Indian, brought up on Navajo and Jemes Pueblo reservations. He was educated in the University of New Mexico and Stanford University. Following his prize-winning first novel, House Made of Dawn, he published, among other works, his memoir, The Names (1976), and his next novel, The Ancient Child (1989). Momaday likes to think of himself primarily as a poet. His volumes of poetry include Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems (1992)
2. Momaday's major works House Made of Dawn(1968) The Names(1976) The Ancient Child(1989) Angle of Geese(1974) The Gourd Dancer(1976) In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems(1992
2. Momaday’s major works House Made of Dawn(1968) The Names (1976) The Ancient Child (1989) Angle of Geese (1974) The Gourd Dancer (1976) In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems (1992)
3. Masterpiece: House Made of Dawn (1968) x Story: House Made of Dawn is about the experience of a Native American in relation to his own cultural heritage from which he is estranged and to the capitalist mainstream society which is alien to him. X Feature: House Made of Dawn is a formal novelty. With regard to the notion of time, the novel is a chronological chaos. It consists of a prologue and four sections, The Longhair, The Priest of the Sun,The Night Chanter, and The Dawn Runner. The first and the last sections are set in the Jemez pueblo, Walatowa( Village of the Bear ) while the two interior chapters are located in Los Angels. All the sections are dated to offer a faint notion of time for the story. This is necessary because the sections interlock and intersect and crisscross with flashbacks and memories so that the readers tend to lose track of time
3.Masterpiece: House Made of Dawn(1968) ＊Story: House Made of Dawn is about the experience of a Native American in relation to his own cultural heritage from which he is estranged and to the capitalist mainstream society which is alien to him. ＊Feature: House Made of Dawn is a formal novelty. With regard to the notion of time, the novel is a chronological chaos. It consists of a prologue and four sections, "The Longhair, The Priest of the Sun," "The Night Chanter," and "The Dawn Runner." The first and the last sections are set in the Jemez pueblo, Walatowa ("Village of the Bear"), while the two interior chapters are located in Los Angels. All the sections are dated to offer a faint notion of time for the story. This is necessary because the sections interlock and intersect and crisscross with flashbacks and memories so that the readers tend to lose track of time
House Made of Dawn (1968) the book is heavily tinted in American Indian color: the race for good hunting and harvests, the fiestas--The Feast of Santiago with its ceremony of the rooster pull race and the winner's flailing of a fellow participant, and the fiesta of Porcingula, with its Pecos bull ceremony, the annual eagle hunt and its sacrifice in an Indian ceremony, the Navajo night chant which offers spiritual healing(as Ben does for Abel), and the dawn running with the runner's arms and shoulders marked with burnt wood and ashes House Made of dawn is an authentic representation of the Native Americans surviving in the modern world while trying, and successfully to keep their traditions intact and their selfhood whole
House Made of Dawn(1968) the book is heavily tinted in American Indian color: the race for good hunting and harvests, the fiestas--The Feast of Santiago with its ceremony of the rooster pull race and the winner's flailing of a fellow participant, and the fiesta of Porcingula, with its Pecos bull ceremony, the annual eagle hunt and its sacrifice in an Indian ceremony, the Navajo night chant which offers spiritual healing (as Ben does for Abel), and the dawn running with the runner's arms and shoulders marked with burnt wood and ashes. House Made of Dawn is an authentic representation of the Native Americans surviving in the modern world while trying, and successfully, to keep their traditions intact and their selfhood whole
James Welch(1940-) x He was born in montana to a blackfeet father and a Gros Ventre mother. Growing up on the reservations, Welch learned a good deal about the ways of life of both Indian nations. He was educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Montana. In 1971 he published nis Tirst volume of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40, but then heturned his creative energies to fiction. So far he has ublished a few novels including Winter in the Blood (1974) he Death of Jim Loney (1979), Fools Crow(1986), and The Indian Lawyer(1990) x The Montana plains offer the backdrop for most of his stories, and the contrast between modern and traditional lifestyles provide the basic thematic focus for his fiction Welch's tone of storytelling is usually not optimistic. There is an element of desperation in his narratives. It may have
James Welch (1940-) ＊He was born in Montana to a Blackfeet father and a Gros Ventre mother. Growing up on the reservations, Welch learned a good deal about the ways of life of both Indian nations. He was educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Montana. In 1971 he published his first volume of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40, but then heturned his creative energies to fiction. So far he has published a few novels including Winter in the Blood (1974), The Death of Jim Loney (1979), Fools Crow (1986), and The Indian Lawyer (1990). ＊The Montana plains offer the backdrop for most of his stories, and the contrast between modern and traditional lifestyles provide the basic thematic focus for his fiction. Welch's tone of storytelling is usually not optimistic. There is an element of desperation in his narratives. It may have