[nativestudies-l] [Fwd: FW: Death of Paula Gunn Allen]

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:38:15 -0700
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Subject: Fwd: FW: Death of Paula Gunn Allen
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From: SAIL Discussion Group on behalf of Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown
Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 3:55 PM
To: ASAIL-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Death of Paula Gunn Allen



Dear Colleagues:

Paula Gunn Allen died on 29 May at 10:43 p.m. Her daughter, Laura Lee
Brown, just called to let me know. She will be buried in Fort Bragg,
California. Those who wish to memorialize her are encouraged to make
donations in her memory to the Lannan Foundation; last year, it gave her
two-year fellowship.

Paula was a very dear friend for over thirty years. She called a couple
of weeks ago to tell me she had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer
and had four to six months to live. After we talked about her illness,
she joked about the election. She laughed at the irony of the fact that
she would not live to
 see the first person of color, Barak Obama, elected
president. "Just my luck," she said. When I spoke to her last week, she
was very weak and unable to get out of bed.

When the family sends me an obituary, I will forward it.

It is thirty-one years since she directed the MLA-NEH Summer Seminar on
Contemporary Native American Literature, held in Flagstaff in 1977. She
edited the volume that came out of that seminar: STUDIES IN AMERICAN
INDIAN LITERATURE: CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COURSE DESIGNS (1983), the first
book on teaching this literature. Her SACRED HOOP: RECOVERING THE FEMININE
IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONS (1986)influenced many scholars. A very
talented creative writer, Paula published several volumes of poetry and a
novel, THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS (1983). She also edited
collections of Native American literature. Her most recent book was
POCAHONTAS: MEDICINE WOMAN, SPY, ENTREPRENEUR, DIPLOMAT
 (2003).

Sadly,

LaVonne




--
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
Professor Emerita of English
University of Illinois at Chicago
Home Address: 300 Forest Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302-2012
Phone: 708-848-9292 FAX: 708-848-9308



Lisa Mitten
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html


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