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Follow on Google News | Kathleen C. Arceneaux’s New Novel Explores Challenges of First Contact With an Unknown CultureNovel Explores First Contact With an Unknown Culture. Jukima is an adventure tale, and literary fiction that explores the challenges of a collision between ancient and modern cultures.
Arceneaux says, “At the heart of the book are the questions, which values would you hold close, and which would you change in order to adapt, for the sake of your own survival?” The Jukima are an ancient, isolated people who have evolved very differently from others. They have learned the power of imagination, and magic, and the realities to be found in dreaming. Arceneaux draws upon many of her own experiences in anthropology fieldwork in this fictionaized account of cultural first-contact. For more information about the book, please visit: http://www.lulu.com/ Arceneaux’s new short fiction can be found at: http://kcarceneaux.wordpress.com/ About Jukima & Dr. Kathleen C. Arceneaux The novel Jukima won a Virginia Commission for the Arts Prize. Arceneaux has also won a Tara Fellowship from the Heekin Group for short fiction, and other awards, and her short story, “Survivor,” End
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