[Review of] Paula Gunn Allen. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows

Authors

Annette Van Dyke

Orginal Publication Date

1985

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

5

Issue

ess/vol5/iss1

First Page

3

Last Page

5

Abstract

Paula Gunn Allen's novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, is important -- one of few written by an American Indian woman focusing on an Indian woman's life. (Other examples are Sophia Alice Callahan's Wynemia: A Child of the Forest, 1891, and Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the Half Blood, 1927). Allen writes out of her Laguna Pueblo heritage (she says she is Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Lebanese-American), and gives the reader a view of a contemporary Indian woman's life through her character, Ephanie.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1985