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How to Dress a Fish
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Wesleyan University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 5735D6R
EAN: 9780819578488
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Zustellung: Fr, 11.09.2026
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Beschreibung
Poetry that crafts a prismatic vision of Nativeness at the intersection of language, history, family, and identity. Winner of Colorado Book Award in Poetry Category. Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. In How to Dress a Fish. , poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island, Alaska, and sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Incorporating extracts from Michael's boarding school records and early Russian ethnologies-while engaging Alutiiq language, storytelling motifs, and traditional practices-the poems form an act of witness and reclamation. In uncovering her own family records, Chabitnoy works against the attempted erasure, finding that while legislation such as the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act reconnects her to community, through blood and paper, it could not restore the personal relationships that had already been severed.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Abigal Chabitnoy
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 152