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• W2762273621 abstract "254 Western American Literature of the escapades, adventures, and eccentricities of Lummis, most of which are told in Lummis’ own hand. Lummis had a dream of making Los Angeles and the Southwest an intellectual and cultural center, but realized it would cost a dear price, knowing that “for the fullness of civilization, the price comes out of our human nature. . . . The city is more or less a disease.” Lummis said that “man can endure on this planet only when he has his roots in the earth.” Lummis crusaded for a myriad of social causes — Indians, Blacks, women, museums, literature, archaeology. As a master of sarcasm he offended many. He loved a fight and sometimes wrent out of his way to start one, either verbal or physical. He organized a Society of Self-Made SonsofBitches, and retained the privilege of nominating members. But along with the enemies, Lummis made some enduring friends. Eugene Manlove Rhodes penned this final tribute to Lummis: In twenty ways Lummis was the most remarkable man I ever knew — his scholarly thoroughness, his appalling industry, his rapier-like wit, and the militant heart that never feared to make a foe in a good cause. He finished what he started and he paid for what he broke. SIDNEY JENSON, Church College of Hawaii The Mesa of Flowers. By Harold Courlander. (New York: Crown Pub­ lishers, Inc., 1977. 245 pages, $8.95.) A novel should not need to be labeled; the dust jacket of Harold Courlander’s The Mesa of Flowers, however, plainly assures the reader that the book is a novel. And the author, in his dedication of the book to his Hopi and Tewa friends, states that the book is fictional. Over all, however, the novel, if it is a novel, does not fulfill the expectations that one normally has for a novel. The publishers call The Mesa of Flowers “An Epic Quest.” In the classical sense the book is not an epic; it has no hero, although it does relate the odyssey of the Gray Fox clan “four or five centuries ago,” before the Indians of the Southwest had become tribal, in its search for the promised land, the Mesa of Flowers. Realistically, the Mesa of Flowers, like Canaan, did not turn out to be the ideal habitation. Courlander’s method was to collect the oral traditions of Indians of the Southwest, probably the Hopi and the Tewa, and weave them into a chronological narrative of the journeys of the Gray Fox clan during a period of less than two years, from the River Bend, to the Place of Refuge, to the Mesa of Flowers. They were guided by tradition, by visions and prophecy, and by cataclysmic events. The quest seems to be the universal quest of Reviews 255 mankind for nirvana, paradise, or utopia. But the story of the quest, though interesting, is frequently confusing. It is hard to keep the characters sep­ arate; few individuals stand out in the narrative. And this is the main defect of the book: the characters are twodimensional , almost unreal, and the setting, though obviously in the South­ west, is vaguely imagined. It seems to me that Courlander’s method of making fiction out of oral history does not necessarily preclude the use of the imagination to develop some of the characters fully or the use of geography to add realism to the setting. The oral history might suffer, but this would be better than for the reader to suffer. Also, the book might more closely resemble a novel. And I think the editors should have insisted on the division of the book into chapters. The Mesa of Flowers will inevitably be a happy hunting ground for the symbolic interpreters, and I expect to see it lauded as an allegory of the struggles of the entire human race. It is good folklore and oral history, but it is not, even by the loosest of standards, an effective novel. ORLAN SAWEY, Texas A&I University in Kingsville Fred Rosenstock: A Legend in Books and Art. By Donald E. Bower. Foreword by Frank Waters. (Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1976. 212 pages, $12.50.) It has long been known that one of the finest..." @default.
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