![]() ![]() The circumstances of Rita’s young life lead to her living with her grandmother in Tohatchi for a period of time and then she moves to live with her mother in Santa Fe, circumstances that Diné readers may find familiar. Rita is usual for a child because of her gift of seeing another world where spirits exist. Indigenous authors across genres have reclaimed literary traditions that draw upon ancestral knowledge and, simultaneously, explore topics that reflect the world we live in, genres that include Ramona Emerson’s Shutter, which is called a “horror.”Īs “horror,” Shutter is a story about a young Diné woman, Rita, who is introduced to photography by her beloved grandmother who shows her how to use a simple box as a camera and then gifts her a Kodak camera. I never read another one.īooks authored by Native people were a rarity and now, 40 years later at least, I find an explosion of fiction and non-fiction by Indigenous authors. In the 1980s, I read only one of Tony Hillerman’s novels about Navajos as a classroom assignment. ![]() Book cover of “Shutter,” by Ramona Emerson. ![]()
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