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readingwithcoffee's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.5
The short book (though my copy was 151 pages so I don’t know if the ten others were just the title page etc that gets count on Libby or something else) is a collection of memoir excerpts, short stories, an essay and poetry by Native American artist and activist Zitkala-Sa. The poetry from the time period of the late 19th and early 20th I Can be be very hot and cold to by mood but it did remind me of other old poetry I found of good quality if not my preferences, the short essay ends fairly curtly but perhaps it is only an excerpt. I think it would have been good for an editor to remind a modern reader or someone unfamiliar with the continent’s history this was before native Americans had American citizenship and why they wanted it etc.
I love the short stories (and I think the collection builds on the arrangement and prices chosen very well) my favorite were “The Soft-Hearted Sioux” and “the wide spread enigma concerning blue star women” they were complex and multilayered short stories I think did a lot emotions while discussing multiple issues of the time.
I love the short stories (and I think the collection builds on the arrangement and prices chosen very well) my favorite were “The Soft-Hearted Sioux” and “the wide spread enigma concerning blue star women” they were complex and multilayered short stories I think did a lot emotions while discussing multiple issues of the time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Genocide and Colonisation
anna_wa's review against another edition
In class, we were only assigned to read the beginning of the book (the part that tells her life story). We weren't assigned the rest of the book. I might consider going back and reading the rest one day, but all the reviews I read said that the rest wasn't as good???
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Racial slurs