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Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays » Read Now
by Louise K. Barnett, James L. Thorson. 326 pgs.

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...LESLIE MARMON SILKO LESLIE MARMON SILKO A Collection of Critical Essays EDITED BY Louise...EDITION Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leslie Marmon Silko: a...
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Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak ("Leslie Marmon Silko" begins on p. 135) » Read Now
by Laura Coltelli. 212 pgs.

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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations...
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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. 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 and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and historians.
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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 9 "Weaving the Web: Leslie Marmon Silko") » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 180 pgs.

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An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Ceremony: From Alienation to Reciprocity (Leslie Marmon Silko)" begins on p. 69) » Read Now
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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...Alienation to Reciprocity" Leslie Marmon Silko 69 John...literatures the essays on Leslie Marmon Silko and Rudolfo Anaya, for example...raised in the United States. Leslie...
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The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell: The Power of Women in Native American Literature (Chap. 4 "'The Men in the Bar Feared Her': The Power of Ayah in Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Lullaby'") » Read Now
by Patrice E. M. Hollarh. 198 pgs.

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From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of live, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas or squaw we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal...
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From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of live, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas or squaw we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of these empowered female characters in Native American literature. Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah suggests that is important to evaluate Native American literary female characters in a cultural paradigm that is less Euro-American and more compatible to the complementary of Native American culture.
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Police Zones: Territory and Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Karen Piper. 15 pgs.

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...boundaries of any sort. -- Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 The year that Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony was published was...MELUS 18 ( 1993 ): 47-61. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony...
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Pulling Silko's Threads through Time: An Exploration of Storytelling, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Alanna Kathleen Brown. 9 pgs.

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...particularly indebted to Leslie Marmon Silko for the unfolding of...first reading Leslie Marmon Silkos works in the...from a presentation Leslie Silko made to the...
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Storytellers and Their Listener-Readers in Silko's "Storytelling" and "Storyteller," in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Susan Berry Brill De Ramirez. 25 pgs.

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...Ramirez In Ceremony , Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) provides the...listener-readers, as does Leslie Marmon Silko in her volume Storyteller...American Indian writers...
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Earth as Mother, Earth as Other in Novels by Silko and Hogan, in Critique » Read Now
by Jennifer Brice. 12 pgs.

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...by Laguna Indian Leslie Marmon Silko , this homecoming is...their words. Although Silko is a Laguna and Hogan...Feminine Landscape of Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony...Lang...
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The Reawakening of the Gods: Realism and the Supernatural in Silko and Hulme, in Critique » Read Now
by Thomas E. Benediktsson. 12 pgs.

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...realisms codes. In the first, Leslie Silko Ceremony , Tayo, half white and...Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986 . Silko, Leslie. Ceremony . New York: Viking...Laguna Symbolic...
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Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and Black Subjectivity (Chap. 3 "Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead") » Read Now
by Sharon Patricia Holland. 236 pgs.

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Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through "the...
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Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through "the space of death" gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide.
Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other "minorities" in society is, like death, "almost unspeakable". She gives voice to -- or raises -- the dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society, Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory.
Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.
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Historical Nightmares and Imaginative Violence in American Women's Writings (Chap. 7 "Comedic Violence and the Art of Survival: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead") » Read Now
by Amy S. Gottfried. 158 pgs.

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Interpreting five contemporary novels that document suppressed histories of violence and abuse, including Toni Morrison's Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, the author then examines the disturbing connections between violence and art.
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Coyote Loops: Leslie Marmon Silko Holds a Full House in Her Hand, in MELUS » Read Now
by Brewster E. Fitz. 18 pgs.

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Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction ("Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)" begins on p. 50) » Read Now
by Andrew MacDonald, Maryann Sheridan, Gina MacDonald. 338 pgs.

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This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches...
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This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas. The authors provide critical approaches for evaluating the literature. They argue that while popular fiction conventions determine and limit authentic portraits of Native American cultures, successful popular fiction writers approach literary quality by fusing authentic Native American culture with the standard genre conventions. Approximately 200 books are discussed and evaluated, and true Native American stories and writings are contrasted with mainstream versions of Indian culture.
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The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth Century America (Discussion of Leslie Marmon Silko begins on p. 104) » Read Now
by Sandra Baringer. 176 pgs.

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Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon.
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Leslie Marmon Silko: Reading, Writing, and Storytelling, in MELUS » Read Now
by Roumiana Velikova. 18 pgs.

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