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Name

Paula Gunn Allen

Alternate name:

Paula Marie Francis

Heritage

Laguna

Sioux

Scottish

Lebanese-American

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1939-2008

Date Note

birth date October 24, 1939; death date May 29, 2008

Birthplace

Cubero

New Mexico

Specialty / Medium

poetry

writing

criticism

fiction

gay literature

teaching

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

"Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American and Native American descent, she identified with the Laguna Pueblo of her childhood years, the culture in which she'd grown up. She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction and poetry, and also wrote numerous essays on its themes. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary works, and wrote two biographies of Native American women. In addition to her literary work, in 1986 she published a major study on the role of women in American Indian traditions, arguing that Europeans had de-emphasized the role of women in their accounts of native life because of their own patriarchal societies. It stimulated other scholarly work by feminist and Native American writers."--Wikipedia entry for Paula Gunn Allen (viewed September 7, 2016) at permanent link URL https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paula_Gunn_Allen&oldid=720598915

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Allen, Paula Gunn

Publications

Found 43 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes	Website
. "Paula Gunn Allen Comes for Endowed Lecture" . v. 6, no. 1, Winter, 1989. La Tertulia.
. Native American Authors: Winter 1988/89 Book List. Greenfield Center N.Y.: Greenfield Review Press. 1988.		1988
Allen Paula Gunn, ed. Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writings By Native American Women. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. 1989.		1989
Allen Paula Gunn. From The Center, A Folio: Native American Art and Poetry. New York, Strawberry Press. 1981.		1981
Allen Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering The Feminine In American Indian Traditions. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. 1986.		1986
Allen, Paula Gunn. "A Trick of Light". Yellow Medicine Review, spring 2017. 2017.	22-23	2017	Poem. Originally appeared in the spring 2008 issue of Yellow Medicine Review.
Allen, Paula Gunn. "Deer Woman". In: Lesley, Craig and Katheryn Stavrakis (editors). Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories. New York, New York: Laurel. 1991.	1-11	1991	Includes biographical notes.
Allen, Paula Gunn. "Kopis'taya (a Gathering of Spirits). In: Anderson, Lorraine (editor). Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature. New York, New York: Vintage Books. 1991.	336-337	1991	Poem; reprinted from "Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: an Anthology of Poetry by American Indian Writers", edited by Joseph Bruchac (1984).
Allen, Paula Gunn. Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Source Book. Boston: Beacon Press. 1991.		1991
Allen, Paula Gunn and Patricia Clark Smith. As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Stories of Nine Native Americans. New York, New York: Scholastic Press. 1996.		1996
Allen, Paula Gunn. . "Star Child: Poems". v. 27, no. 2. Blue Cloud Quarterly.
Allen, Paula Gunn. Columbus and Beyond: Views From Native Americans. Tucson, Ariz.: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association. 1992.		1992
Allen, Paula Gunn. Studies In American Literature: Critical Essays and Course Design. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 1993.		1993
Allen, Paula Gunn. The Woman Who Owned The Shadows. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute. 1986.		1986
Balassi, William, John F. Crawford, and Annie O. Eysturoy (editors). This Is about Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. 1990.	95-108	1990	Includes writers Frank Waters, Frances Gilmore, Tony Hillerman, Edward Abbey, N. Scott Momaday, Margaret Randall, Rudolfo Anaya, Paula Gunn Allen, Mark Medoff, John Nichols, Pat Mora, Linda Hogan, Denise Chavez, Joy Harjo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Luci Tapahonso. In series, New America Studies in the American West.
Bataille, Gretchen M. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Press. 1985.	3-8	1985
Champagne, Duane, ed. The Native North American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada. Detroit: Gale Research Inc. 1993.	999-1000	1993
Colonnese, Tom and Louis Owens. American Indian Novelists: an Annotated Critical Bibliography. New York, New York: Garland Publishing. 1985.	3-8	1985	Includes novelists Paula Gunn Allen, Denton R. Bedford, Dallas Chief Eagle, Janet Campbell Hale, Jamake Highwater, Hum-Ishu-Ma (Mourning Dove), D'Arcy McNickle, Markoosie, John Joseph Mathews, N. Scott Momaday, Nasnaga (Roger Russell), John Milton Oskison, Chief George Pierre, Simon Pokagon, Leslie Marmon Silko, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Hyemeyohsts Storm, John William Tebbel, James Tucker, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch.
Felver, Christopher (photographer), Simon J. Ortiz (writer of foreword), and Linda Hogan (writer of introduction). Tending the Fire: Native Voices & Portraits. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. 2017.	8-9, 207	2017	Includes index and alphabetical list of contributors with biographical sketches for the following Native voices: Francisco X. Alarcón, Sherman Alexie, Indira Allegra, Paula Gunn Allen, Crisosto Apache, Annette Arkeketa, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dennis Banks, Jim Barnes, Kimberly L. Becker, Duane Big Eagle, Sherwin Bitsui, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Lauralee Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Allison Hedge Coke, Travis Coke, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Jonny Cournoyer, Alice Crow Crow-Maar'aq, Lucille Lang Day, Susan Deer Cloud, Ramona Emerson, Heid E. Erdrich, Louise Erdrich, Pura Fé, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Diane Glancy, Jewelle "Still Water" Gomez, Rain Prud'homme-Cranford Goméz, Sequoyah Guess, Q.R. Hand Jr., Joy Harjo, Lance David Henson, Trace L. Hentz, Inés Hernández-Avila, Charles Allan "Charlie" Hill, Roberta J. Hill, Geary Hobson, Linda Hogan, LeAnne Howe, Andrew Jolivétte, em jollie, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Maurice Kenny, Bruce King, Sharmagne Leland-
Fields, Anita (curator). "Anticipating the Dawn": Contemporary Art by Native American Women. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Gardiner Art Gallery, Department of Art, Oklahoma State University. 1999.	30	1999	Includes untitled poem by Paula Gunn Allen which begins with the word "Womanwork" and was reprinted from Rayna Green's book "That's What She Said" \| Catalog of an exhibition at the Gardiner Art Gallery, Department of Art, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, January 10, 2000-February 9, 2000.
Furlan, Laura M. Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 2017.	2, 38, 46, 131, 217, 223-224 (note 8)	2017	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Glancy, Diane. Claiming Breath. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press. 1992.		1992
Green, Rayna, ed. Women In American Indian Society. New York: Chelsea Publishing. 1992.	23, 49, 92	1992
Hamilton, Geoff. A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. 2019.	138	2019	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hanson, Elizabeth I. Paula Gunn Allen. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University. 1990.		1990
Hawley, Elizabeth S. "Tonita Peña and the Politics of Pueblo Art". American Art, vol. 35, no. 1 (spring 2021). 2021.	82-83	2021
Hirschfelder, Arlene, ed. Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians: 1790 to the Present. New York: MacMillan. 1995.	18-19	1995
Hobson, Geary, ed. The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1988.	191-193, 217-239	1988
Jensen, Jean N. One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1995.	32	1995
Jojola, Lloyd. "Indian Writer Led Groundbreaking Work in Native Literature". Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Albuquerque Journal.	F4		Newspaper article
Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2018.	107	2018	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
Laegreid, Renee M. and Sandra K. Mathews (editors), with foreword by Joan M. Jensen. Women on the North American Plains. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press. 2011.	98	2011	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lippard, Lucy R. ~Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York, New York: Pantheon Books. 1990.	109	1990	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Markowitz, Harvey (editor). American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, California: Salem Press. 1999.	4	1999
Prince-Hughes, Tara. The Two-Spirit Heritage: Gender and Social Responsibility in Fiction by Native American and Alternative Gender Writers. Ann Arbor, Michigan: ProQuest LLC. 2019.		2019	Dissertation submitted to the Department of English, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York for the requirements of Ph. D. in 1998. Works by the following writers are analyzed: Paula Gunn Allen, Beth Brant, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Radclyffe Hall, and Leslie Feinberg. Includes bibliographical references.
Rainwater, Catherine (editor). Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller: New Perspectives. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. 2016.	22-24	2016	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sapin, Beverly and Doris Seale, ed. Books Without Bias: Through Indian Eyes. Berkeley: Oyate. 1988.	44-45	1988
Sellers, Stephanie A. and Menoukha R. Case (editors). Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen. Albuquerque, New Mexico: West End Press. 2017.		2017	This collection celebrates Paula Gunn Allen's life (1939-2008) as an Indigenous scholar, writer, and woman. It features creative writing, art, and memoir of Native American and other writers.
Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of Native American Women. New York, New York: Facts on File. 1998.	3-4	1998	In series: Encyclopedia of Women
Squint, Kirstin L. LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. 2018.	2, 31, 46, 59	2018	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trujillo, Simón Ventura. Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. 2022.	34, 40, 48-50, 65, 151	2022	Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally copyrighted 2020.
Vizenor, Gerald (editor). Native American Literature: a Brief Introduction and Anthology. New York, New York: HarperCollins College Publishers. 1995.		1995
Wikipedia contributors. "Paula Gunn Allen". In: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (host URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/) at source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen. 2006.		2006	Current entry on Paula Gunn Allen in Wikipedia (viewed October 1, 2019); webpage created March 31, 2006, revised and updated irregularly.	View

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