Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 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.