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sophinisba13. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology, compiled by Gay American Indians; Will Roscoe, coordinating editor, 1988
I was excited to come across this book because I've read very little by Native authors and I thought this would make a neat introduction and help me find some authors I'd like to read more of. It was a little bit disappointing to me in that respect because it had less fiction than I'd expected and the more generalizing non-fiction selections felt very dated to me. Still I really liked that it was almost all written by gay and lesbian American Indians, whereas other books I've seen about Two Spirit people are by white anthropologists. (My understanding is that Roscoe is white and did a lot of the editing on this but very little of the writing, and he worked with activists from the San Francisco-based group Gay American Indians.) It has a mix of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and art by women and men from a lot of different tribes from different parts of the US and Canada. ( Read more... )
I was excited to come across this book because I've read very little by Native authors and I thought this would make a neat introduction and help me find some authors I'd like to read more of. It was a little bit disappointing to me in that respect because it had less fiction than I'd expected and the more generalizing non-fiction selections felt very dated to me. Still I really liked that it was almost all written by gay and lesbian American Indians, whereas other books I've seen about Two Spirit people are by white anthropologists. (My understanding is that Roscoe is white and did a lot of the editing on this but very little of the writing, and he worked with activists from the San Francisco-based group Gay American Indians.) It has a mix of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and art by women and men from a lot of different tribes from different parts of the US and Canada. ( Read more... )
