THE AUNT LUTE ANTHOLOGY OF U.S. WOMEN WRITERS

     Volume Two: The 20th Century

The story of U.S. literature in the twentieth century is in many ways the story of the hard-won emergence of women's voices--all kinds of women's voices--into print. The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women WritersVolume Two: The 20th Century is an unprecedented effort to capture, in all its scope and variety, the extraordinary result of that florescence.

Editors:

Lisa Hogeland and Shay Brawn $45.00 978-1-879960-77-0

                                      

 

 

Click here to see the Preface and Table of Contents

 

LeAnne Howe, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the author of three books, including the novel Shell Shaker (Aunt Lute 2001), winner of the 2002 American Book Award. In 2006-2007 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Howe wrote the screenplay for Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, a 90-minute PBS documentary released in November 2006. Her poetry collection Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK; 2005) was awarded the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award. Currently, Howe is Associate Professor and Interim Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and teaches in the M.F.A. program there.  She divides her time between her home in Ada, Oklahoma, and her academic life in Illinois.

 

Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story

LeAnne Howe

 

"LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings is an incredible

act of recovery: baseball, a sport jealously guarded

by mainstream Anglo culture, is also rooted in

Native American history and territory. The irony

behind its status as "the all-American pastime" is not

lost on Howe as she weaves these compelling stories

and narratives to expose the political games of the

20th century that NativeAmericans learned to

play for resistance and survival."

        —Rigoberto González, author of  

 So Often the Pitcher Goes  to Water Until It Breaks

                           and Butterfly Boy

 

Click here to read LeAnne Howe's blog

Click here to listen to an interview of LeAnne Howe on Native America Calling (Scroll down to February 27, 08)

Click here to see a review of Miko Kings in City Pages

Click here to listen to LeAnne Howe read on "Live from Prairie Lights", WSUI, Iowa City (scroll down to 3/26/08)

                

LeAnne  Howe's  2008 Touring  Schedule 

Sept. 21        Sunday Salon, Reading, New York City, 7pm.

Nov. 15         Iroquois Indian Museum, Reading/Film showing, 2 pm.

Nov. 16         Iroquois Indian Museum, Workshop, 1 pm, Howes

                           Cave, New York.

 

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