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"This comprehensive, encyclopedic text offers an overview of the life, career, and works of Leslie Marmon Silko, an accomplished poet, novelist and memoirist. Topics include genres, characters, themes, issues, and glossary of Pueblo terms. This will aid scholars and readers interested in the work and career of the first internationally-acclaimed native woman author in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
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With the publication of Ceremony in 1977, a strikingly original voice appeared in Native American fiction. These thirteen essays, the first collection devoted entirely to Silko's work, present new perspectives on her fiction and provide a deeper understanding of her work. From her engagement with the New Mexico landscape to her experiments with cross-cultural narratives and form to her apocalyptic vision of race relations in Almanac of the Dead, Silko...
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Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Native American was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. She also grew up in a household where books were cherished and reading at the dinner table was not deemed rude, but instead was encouraged. In his examination of Silko's literature, the author explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word, revealing how it carries over from Silko's upbringing and plays out in her...
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"In Shifting the Ground, Rachel Stein adds a feminist slant to the rapidly growing field of ecocriticism. Americans have historically defined themselves in terms of their conquest of "virgin land." Unfortunately, this identification has often proved disastrous to groups such as women, Native Americans, and African Americans, who were regarded as nature incarnate, part of the ground that must be mastered in the name of nation." "From a perspective...
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Publisher description: In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor; and James Welch. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender; and the relations between Indian writers...
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Velie provides an overview of native American literature as well as an in-depth look at four American Indian writers and their links to both tribal heritages and American and European literary traditions. He examines the Tanoan and Kiowan heritage of Momaday and his postsymbolist link to Yvor Winters; Blackfeet mythology and work of James Welch; Laguna myths and medieval legends in the work of Leslie Silko; and the Chippewa trickster myths found in...
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The works of Leslie Marmon Silko are strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, they use particular experiences and places to reveal universal truths. Here, Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Native American world and the larger, brutal surrounding world.
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