Daughters of Copper Woman

Name: Daughters of Copper Woman
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Anne Cameron
ISBN: 9798855548327

Author: Anne Cameron

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 4 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Native & Indigenous History, Native & Indigenous Nonfiction, Canadian History

Synopsis

Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust, is the complete version of the groundbreaking bestseller.

In this, her best-loved work, Anne Cameron has created a timeless retelling of northwest coast Native myths that together create a sublime image of the social and spiritual power of woman. Cameron weaves together the lives of legendary and imaginary characters, creating a work of fiction with an intensity of style matched by the power of its subject.

About Anne Cameron

Anne Cameron was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She began writing at an early age, starting with theatre scripts and screenplays. In 1979, her film Dreamspeaker, directed by Claude Jutra, won seven Canadian Film Awards, including best script. After being published as a novel, Dreamspeaker went on to win the Gibson Award for Literature. She has published more than thirty books, including the underground classic Daughters of Copper Woman, its sequel, Dzelarhons, novels, stories, poems, and legends-for adults and children. Her recent novels include Family Resemblances, Hardscratch Row, and a new, revised edition of Daughters of Copper Woman. She lives in Tahsis, British Columbia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ranendu on April 28, 2019

|| তাম্রপ্রভা নারীর মেয়েরা, এক হারিয়ে যাওয়া সমাজের উপকথা|| [ Daughters of Copper Woman, by Anne Cameron, The Woman’s Press, 1984] ************************* সে রাতে ঘন কুয়াশা ছেয়েছিল চারদিকে। হাওয়ার এলোমেলো ধাক্কায়, ঘন কুয়াশার সেই সান্দ্র আবরণ মাঝে মাঝে সরে গেলে, চাঁদের মলিন আলো এসে পড়ছিল যোদ্ধ......more

Goodreads review by Kari on July 08, 2015

This is one of those little-known books that every woman should read. From the First People's creation story (a woman was created first) to the repeated concept that we are all connected and are all related, this book is stunningly beautiful, painfully sad, and heart-wrenchingly hopeful. The simple,......more

Goodreads review by Lesley on June 08, 2019

Years ago, I saw a TV documentary about Native Americans which included a tradition that the wife of a whale hunter had to stay in bed the whole time he was away, to keep him safe. I was delighted to find that tradition, and the reasons around it, in this book, along with many other stories from the......more

Goodreads review by Dnicebear on July 16, 2010

Snatches of storytelling from a matriarchal society, kept oral for centuries, now written down. Mmm--I lingered in the seasons and in the training of the girls and thrilled to meet "the Children of Happiness" and braced myself for the struggles with the "Keestadores," Which is another word for conqu......more