Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
Cover of the book Diné Bahane': The Navajo Creation Story by Paul Zolbrod, University of New Mexico Press
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Author: Paul Zolbrod ISBN: 9780826325037
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication: December 1, 1987
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Language: English
Author: Paul Zolbrod
ISBN: 9780826325037
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication: December 1, 1987
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Language: English

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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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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