The Woman Who Fell From the Sky

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The Woman Who Fell From the Sky is a poetry collection by Joy Harjo that weaves Native American mythology, personal history, and contemporary experience into lyrical explorations of identity, memory, and survival.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Joy Harjo NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creatorEthnicity Muscogee (Creek) Nation NERFINISHED
followedBy A Map to the Next World NERFINISHED
genre poetry
hasStyle imagistic
lyrical
musical
mythic
narrative
hasTheme connection to land
cultural continuity
displacement
gender and power
memory and history
resilience
storytelling as survival
influencedBy Muscogee (Creek) oral tradition
Native American storytelling
blues
jazz
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryMovement contemporary Native American literature
notableFor exploration of indigenous female identity
integration of Native mythology and contemporary experience
use of oral storytelling techniques in written poetry
partOf Joy Harjo bibliography
precededBy In Mad Love and War NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1994
publisher W. W. Norton & Company NERFINISHED
subject Native American mythology
colonialism
contemporary Native American life
family
feminism
history
identity
indigenous experience
memory
memory and trauma
place
spirituality
survival

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