Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. Item #031396
First printing. 196 pages. Le Guin's primary purpose is to write about animals and other nonhuman living things in ways that belie the cultural myth that "animals are dumb: have no words of their own. She is drawing on Native American legends of the First People sometimes described as "members of a race of mythic prototypes who lived before humans existed. Significantly, "Buffalo Gals" begins with Myra's displacement across a boundary, into a realm where she is asked to take a drastically different view of life from that which separates "thinking" mankind from the sensitivity of animals. Feminist scholars see this work as an example of a poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism. This copy has the ownership signature of "Philomena Guillebaud" whose work in Cambridge was on behalf of the homeless while writing a guide to Cambridge's west end. Hartwell, 200 significant AF Books by Women, 1984-2001. A very good copy bound in 1/4 rust cloth over tan paper covered boards, upper corners bumped, in a very good pictorial dust jacket lettered in red and blue, some wear to upper corners, spine ends with a couple of chips and wear and small closed edge tear to bottom edge of front panel.
Price: $155.00