The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday Prologue A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather File Size: KB. In this excerpt from "The Way to Rainy Mountain" by N. Scott Momaday, what aspect of culture does the author explore? I returned to Rainy Mountain in July. My grandmother had died in the spring, and I wanted to be at her grave. She had lived to be very old and at last infirm. The Way to Rainy Mountain. N. Scott Momaday, a poet and novelist of Kiowa descent, learns that his grandmother, Aho, has died. She is buried near Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma, and Momaday wants to visit her grave. He decides to make the journey the long way—by following the ancient migration route of the Kiowas, from their original homeland near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River east to the Black .
N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for his novel House Made of Dawn. Several of his books are available from UNM Press, including The Way to Rainy Mountain. He lives in Santa Fe. N. Scott Momaday Sep UNM Press. Buy as Gift. Add to Wishlist. Free sample. $ Ebook. First published in paperback by UNM Press in , The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over , copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. N. Scott Momaday doesn't tell a story in the "conventional" way in his book, The Way to Rainy Mountain - not by a long shot. The book is like a long prose poem or a collage, shards of memory pasted together in an ongoing triptych of sorts.
The Way to Rainy Mountain is centered around Momaday's memories of his grandmother Aho, his reactions to her death, and his memories of her. It is clear that Aho was not only personally important. The Way to Rainy Mountain is a memoir—and a nontraditional one at that. It is at once a history of the Kiowa people, a love letter to the plains landscape, a collection of memories of N. Scott Momaday ’s family and tribe, and an experimental reworking of historical writing that attempts to integrate different kinds of knowledge about the past. As such, the book does not have a conventional structure or plot arc. most popular works, The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday mixes Kiowa myths, legends, and history with autobiographical details. In addition to his poetry and fiction, Momaday has published essays and articles on preserving the environment. He says, “Writing is a way of expressing your spirit. So there’s much more to it than the question of material success.
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