Coastal Stories, River Stories
Coastal Stories, River Stories is a collection of short stories situated in southwest Alaska. Coastal Stories is a trilogy about two characters and their relationship over time. Each story employs a different point of view. River Stories is a collection that ranges from a story about a grandmother a...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
01-01-2022
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| Summary: | Coastal Stories, River Stories is a collection of short stories situated in southwest Alaska. Coastal Stories is a trilogy about two characters and their relationship over time. Each story employs a different point of view. River Stories is a collection that ranges from a story about a grandmother and her grandson, a Kuskokwim dogmusher, a woman during the pandemic, an auntie worried about her niece, and a tracker and his wife and elder grandfather who search for a missing child in the river country above the Kuskokwim River delta. Having lived along the Bering Sea coast and Kuskokwim River delta for forty-one years, the settings for the stories are placed in southwest Alaska. Home to the Yupiit, cultural influences effect characterization, language, and place. The collection of stories is tied to the place and landscape and the people. Story within a story, Yup’ik extraordinary creatures, and the use of masks as symbols to represent the past signify ties from the culture to my writing. The critical essay examines two questions and how they situate my creative work: 1)What are the similarities and differences between Alaska Native Oral tradition and contemporary Native American storytelling and 2) What are the similarities and differences to “traditional” Western storytelling? |
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| ISBN: | 9798363503481 |