Susan J Scarberry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan J Scarberry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarberry |
| SIGNATURE | SCARBERRY S J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Land into Flesh
Native American poetry tends to be intimate in nature. The indigenous world views that it expresses hold kinship to be a fundamental fact of reality. Relationships between living beings and the land and the sky are experienced as cyclic and enduring, even as the world is continuously being transformed. This interdependent character of the cosmos creates a personalized reality where intimacy or a shared sense of closeness is made possible because …
"A Discussion of "Ceremony
The following is an edited transcript of the discussion which followed oral summaries of the six preceeding papers delivered in Phoenix, Arizona on October 21, 1978, at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Considerable editing on the transcript was necessary to: eliminate inaudible or garbled portions, excise repetitious or irrelevant statements, make complete sentences of disjointed phrases, clarify ambiguious re…
Memory as Medicine
Throughout most of Ceremony Tayo struggles not to remember. As the novel unfolds, the protagonist is suspended in a dream-like state, at the mercy of his memories. He is being rolled and over again like debris caught in a flood (p. 5). An invisible force propels him towards despair, lunacy, and paralysis. In a desperate effort to forget certain traumatic experiences which continue to shape his life, Tayo almost succumbs to the death urge. Gradual…
Memory as Medicine
Throughout most of Ceremony Tayo struggles not to remember. As the novel unfolds, the protagonist is suspended in a dream-like state, at the mercy of his memories. He is being rolled and over again like debris caught in a flood (p. 5). An invisible force propels him towards despair, lunacy, and paralysis. In a desperate effort to forget certain traumatic experiences which continue to shape his life, Tayo almost succumbs to the death urge. Gradual…
"A Discussion of "Ceremony
The following is an edited transcript of the discussion which followed oral summaries of the six preceeding papers delivered in Phoenix, Arizona on October 21, 1978, at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Considerable editing on the transcript was necessary to: eliminate inaudible or garbled portions, excise repetitious or irrelevant statements, make complete sentences of disjointed phrases, clarify ambiguious re…
"A Discussion of "Ceremony
The following is an edited transcript of the discussion which followed oral summaries of the six preceeding papers delivered in Phoenix, Arizona on October 21, 1978, at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Considerable editing on the transcript was necessary to: eliminate inaudible or garbled portions, excise repetitious or irrelevant statements, make complete sentences of disjointed phrases, clarify ambiguious re…
Memory as Medicine
Throughout most of Ceremony Tayo struggles not to remember. As the novel unfolds, the protagonist is suspended in a dream-like state, at the mercy of his memories. He is being rolled and over again like debris caught in a flood (p. 5). An invisible force propels him towards despair, lunacy, and paralysis. In a desperate effort to forget certain traumatic experiences which continue to shape his life, Tayo almost succumbs to the death urge. Gradual…
Land into Flesh
Native American poetry tends to be intimate in nature. The indigenous world views that it expresses hold kinship to be a fundamental fact of reality. Relationships between living beings and the land and the sky are experienced as cyclic and enduring, even as the world is continuously being transformed. This interdependent character of the cosmos creates a personalized reality where intimacy or a shared sense of closeness is made possible because …
Archaeology (2 works) · Ceremony (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (1 work) · Fishery (1 work)