In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World

by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Book Overview

In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Having spent much of her life illuminating the tragic irony of being an Indian in America, this provocative and often controversial writer narrates the story of her intellectual life in the field of American Indian studies.

Drawing on her experience as a twentieth-century child raised in a Sisseton Santee Dakota...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496239571
• ISBN13: 9781496239570
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"