Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens in the Dunes

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since the publication of her 1977 novel Ceremony. This guide, with chapters written by leading scholars of Native American literature, explores Silko's major novels Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, and Gardens in the Dunes as an entryway into the full body of her work that includes poetry, essays, short fiction, film, photography, and other visual art.These chapters map Silko’s place in the broad context of American literary history. Further, they trace her pivotal role in prompting other Indigenous writers to enter the conversations she helped to launch. Along the way, the book engages her historical themes of land, ethnicity, race, gender, trauma, and healing, while examining her narrative craft and her mythic lyricism.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-22
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472523662

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IntroductionPart I: CeremonyIntroduction1. Intra-tribal Conversations2. Inter-tribal Conversations3. American and Global ConversationsPart II: Almanac of the DeadIntroduction 4. Traditional Conversations5. Contemporary Conversations6. Revisionary ConversationsPart III: Gardens in the DunesIntroduction 7. Ancient Conversations8. Domestic Conversations9. Global ConversationsFurther ReadingNotes on Contributors Index

This sterling collection of essays on Silko’s three novels builds on and extends the extensive Silko scholarship in multiple dimensions and to ambitious depth. Divided into three sections—one for each of the novels—the nine essays, taken together, reveal and explore themes that run throughout. Moore provides effective introductions to the collection as a whole and to each of the sections. As he explains in the opening introduction, the conceit running throughout is the twin notions of "witness and testimony," secondary to Silko’s project "to reveal the mythic dimensions of modern history and the historical momentum of ancient myth." The collection provides a complex theoretical web that speaks to "outside" audiences of resistance and representation. Within this overarching theme, the collection explores implications of gender, race, ethnicity, cultural practices and world views, spiritual dimensions of reality, the structure and performance of stories and storytelling—and so much more. This is a powerful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended.