ISBN号:9780063288539
书名:Whiskey Tender
作者:Deborah Taffa
出版日期:2023-12-22
英文简介:
A Zibby Mag “Most Anticipated Book” * A San Francisco Chronicle “New Book to Cozy Up With” * A Publishers Weekly “Memoirs & Biographies: Top 10” * The Millions “Most Anticipated” * An Electric Lit “Books By Women of Color to Read” “We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this.
Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for.
This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history.
It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently.
It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.
” — Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.
Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life.
Her grandparents–citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe–were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation.
Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.
” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl–born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico–comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories.
Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression.
Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation.
Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart.
As she reflects on her past and present–the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations–she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
中文简介:
《Zibby Mag》“最受期待的书” * 《旧金山纪事报》《令人愉悦的新书》 * 《出版商周刊》“回忆录与传记：前 10 名” * 数以百万计的“最受期待的书” * 一本“有色人种女性的电子点燃书籍”阅读”“我们现在有更多的原住民故事，但我们还没有听过这样的故事。
威士忌温柔是出乎意料的、有推动力的，确实温柔，但也大胆，而且讲述得很漂亮，就像一杯你不知道自己渴望喝的饮料.这本书绝对令人着迷，充满了家庭故事和重要的原住民历史。
它不断地脉动、疼痛、提升。
当我们完成时，它把这么多的真相串联在一起，那些已经编织在一起的东西等于一种来自破碎的完整，一种来自于了解爱与失落以及通过命名而再次爱的希望。
” ——汤米·奥兰治（Tommy Orange），全国畅销书《那里那里》（There There）作者原生继承；对传统的同化和尊重。
黛博拉·杰克逊·塔法从小就相信，为了获得更好的生活，必须做出一些牺牲。
她的祖父母——奎坎族和拉古纳普韦布洛部落的公民——被送到白人传教士开办的印第安寄宿学校，而她的父母则被鼓励参加保留地之外的政府职业培训。
同化意味着搬迁，但随着塔法长大成人，她开始质疑长辈和美国社会所做出的承诺：如果她放弃自己的文化、土地和传统，她不仅会被接受，还会被美国社会所接受。
就能实现“美国梦”。
《威士忌温柔》讲述了一位出生于加利福尼亚州尤马保留地、在新墨西哥州纳瓦霍领地长大的混血部落女孩如何形成自己对身份的诠释，尽管她的父母希望她超越阶级和“印第安人”身份尽管奎坎部落在口述和记录的历史方面有特殊的传统和信仰，但她还是通过教育出生的。
塔法的童年记忆融入了对部落身份、对土著男子猖獗的犯罪定罪、政府同化政策、红色权力运动以及归属感和抵抗系统性压迫之间的谈判的思考。
泛印第安以及特定的部落历史和神话，与 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代在保留地内外度过的童年故事融为一体。
塔法提供了尖锐且发人深省的历史分析，其中充满了幽默和真诚。
当她反思自己的过去和现在时——同化的承诺和她的家庭所遭受的个人和历史的许多背叛；代代相传的创伤——她提醒我们，她祖先的文化叙事如何被排除在美国“熔炉”的中心神话和结构之外，揭示了为了接受的承诺而牺牲的一切。
书籍总体字数：104432，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余96982计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现89622个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1261个/次，
托福单词出现44874个/次，
SAT单词出现4095个/次，
GRE单词出现8440个/次，考研单词出现89773个/次，
雅思单词出现20930个/次。
高中单词出现85859个/次。
（后附饼图供直观参考）
这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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