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  title info:
    title: Leslie Marmon Silko
    sub title: beyond borders
  name:
    name part: Cohen, Robin Payne.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 155 leaves ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Leslie Marmon Silko's works are customarily classified as ethnic (Native American literature) or regional (Southwestern literature). But her later works (Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Water, and Gardens in the Dunes) continue and amplify a motif of border crossings, both literal and figurative, introduced in her earlier works. By transgressing borders in space and in time, she transcends her regional and ethnic categorization while maintaining roots in the traditional Native American culture of the American Southwest. By blurring borders between genres and between literary forms, Silko manages to work within the literary traditions of the dominant culture while testing and expanding them and refusing to be limited by them. By crossing borders between text and image, Silko disproves the myth that Native Americans are a vanishing race of primitives and challenges our preconceived notions of art and literature. These border crossings allow Silko to resist "minority" stereotypes. Instead of writing works that lend themselves to ghettoization as ethnic, regional, or women's literature, Silko boldly claims a place for her work in the broader category of world literature. As Silko's Native American characters find common cause with other marginalized people of the world, her works move toward a pan-ethnic, international literature grounded in hybridity.
  note: by Robin Payne Cohen.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: English".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2002.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-154).
  subject:
    topic: Major English
  identifier: 30-50625 UMI
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 030218
    record change date: 20190325103349.0
    record identifier: in00001731025