The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction
The Oregon Literature Series is a remarkable of collection of the best Oregon writing. In place of one large volume, the series offers six shorter books which broaden the conventional definition of literature. Each volume contains an introduction by the editor and is illustrated with art by Oregon artists and with portraits of many of the featured authors.
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The first inhabitants of Oregon had an intimate knowledge of the land and a rich tradition of oral storytelling. The white settlers brought their own tradition's and slowly learned to understand their new environment; this process, which editor Glen Love calls
storying the land, continues to this day.
The World Begins Here guides the reader through these stories of Oregon, ranging from a Nez Perce story of Coyote's attempt to bring his beloved wife back from the dead to Ella Higginson's story of a young factory girl's response to here lover's rejection. Here are stories of work, tragedy, courage, and the relationships between real, complex human beings.
We begin to belong in a place when we have made our relationships to that place memorable, through art. Some of Oregon's fiction writers are well-known. ...But many other writers have also helped to make a place for Oregon in the larger imagination. The challenge of this volume is to collect the best short fiction from Oregon, from the familiar to the long-forgotten. Out of such a collection one can expect some memorable--and surprising--new meanings. --Glen Love
The Editor
Glen Love is professor emeritus of English At the University of Oregon. He is the author and editor of several books on the literature and culture of the Pacific Northwest. Among his books is
New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern Experience in the American Novel (1982) and
Northwest Perspectives (1979), a book of essays on the culture and literature of the Northwest which he co-edited with Edwin R. Bingham
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