Designs of the Night Sky
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Designs of the Night Sky

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Designs of the Night Sky

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In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, hears books speak and senses their restless flow as they circulate. The same relentless energy and liberation of the story is also felt by Ada as she roller-skates at the Dust Bowl, a local skating rink, floating far ahead of her husband, Ether, a physics professor.

Hearing "the old Cherokee voices" when she skates and works in the Manuscript and Rare Book room in the library, Ada grows increasingly aware of the continuing power of Cherokee tradition today. Coming from a culture based in oral tradition, Ada discovers the potentially liberating role of the written word, and she finds her own empowerment as its promulgator and reinventor in the twenty-first century.

Designs of the Night Sky moves between the turbulent history of a tribe and the experiences of the survivors of that history still caught in turmoil. Rolling from past to present and present to past, Diane Glancy's story provokes and illumines while it invites us to reconsider the form and effect of Native American stories in today's world.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780803268296
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. The Library
  8. Greasy Gravy
  9. Paragraphs
  10. There Were the Old Days of the Indian Removal
  11. A Call
  12. Encampment
  13. The Dust Bowl (1)
  14. Before
  15. 7th April, 1838
  16. The Seven Clans of the Cherokee Nation
  17. The Dream (1)
  18. Jesus
  19. Lifted
  20. The Nests of Boats
  21. A New Sacred Ground
  22. The Stars as Roller Rinks
  23. Whaling
  24. Arrival
  25. The Parents’ House
  26. The Librarian
  27. More of the Old Days of Removal
  28. At the Iguana CafÉ
  29. Late
  30. Captives
  31. Knife Fight
  32. The Dream (2)
  33. The Lost Boyfriend
  34. The Outing
  35. The Fort
  36. The Sky Blowing With Stars
  37. Raking
  38. Grace
  39. The Dream (3)
  40. The Truthettes (1)
  41. Now If I Get the Story straight
  42. The Bible
  43. America
  44. The Truthettes (2)
  45. TO KILL
  46. The Truthettes (3)
  47. Bed
  48. Journal of Occurrences
  49. The Observer
  50. The Truthettes (4)
  51. The Oklahoma Twisters(whirlwinds)
  52. Revelation
  53. Leviathan
  54. There Is a Voice I Don’t Listen To
  55. The Dispossessed
  56. Crying Is My River (psalm 42)
  57. Untitled (1)
  58. Untitled (2)
  59. The Dream (4)
  60. Buffalo Cookies
  61. The Wake
  62. Church Camp
  63. A Story Within a Story
  64. Poor Sarah (1)
  65. The Dream (5)
  66. A Framed Narrative
  67. Poor Sarah (2)
  68. Ether’s Testimony at Church Camp
  69. The Fight
  70. Close
  71. The Rebuilt
  72. Cartoon
  73. The Overhang
  74. Nolie Starts Her Report for High School
  75. The Other Dust Bowl
  76. Relocation
  77. Photo Album
  78. The Dream of My Mother Somewhere
  79. The Head Library
  80. The Dust Bowl (2)
  81. Creation Myths for the Written Word
  82. The Dream (6)
  83. Designs of the Night Sky
  84. The Voices
  85. Sequoyah’s Cabin
  86. Noel Starts Her First Report for College
  87. The Spell
  88. Indentation
  89. Indention
  90. Location
  91. Intermediaries