Título: Shandaa: In my Lifetime
Autor: Velle Herbert
Sinopse: Excerpt from the Introduction
Belle Herbert is a Gwich'in Athabaskan woman who lives in the village of Chalkyitsik, Alaska, on the Black River. According to conflicting birth records, she is between 105 and 127 years old. Her son died in 1964 at the age of 68; so Belle may well have seen more than 120 springtimes. People in the Yukon Flats refer to her as Belle, so that is how we will refer to her [here].
I [Bill Pfisterer] lived in Fort Yukon for some years and often heard people mention Belle and her stories. In the fall of 1979, the Alaska Humanities Forum provided us with money to do a series of recordings with Belle telling her life story. I made several trips to Chalkyitsik to talk with her; the accounts in this book have been transcribed from the recordings of those meetings.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Shandaa: In my Lifetime”, de Velle Herbert, publicado pela editora Alaska Native Language Center, em 1988 e com 207 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Alaska Native Language Center
Páginas: 207
Ano: 1988-09-01
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1555001084
ISBN13: 9781555001087
