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mods: Leslie Marmon Silko a collection of critical essays Barnett, Louise K. Thorson, James L. text bibliography Aufsatzsammlung. essays. Essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Essays. Essais. nmu 1999 1st ed. monographic eng print xi, 319 pages ; 24 cm 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 has earned her place as a significant contemporary American writer. All of Silko's important short fiction, her nonfiction essays, and her novel Almanac of the Dead are examined here. Preface: Silko's power of story / Robert Franklin Gish -- Introduction / James L. Thorson -- Laguna woman / Robert M. Nelson -- Silko's reappropriation of secrecy / Paul Beekman Taylor -- Native designs: Silko's Storyteller and the reader's initiation / Linda Krumholz -- To tell a good story / Helen Jaskoski -- Spinning fiction of culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Elizabeth McHenry -- Shifting patterns, changing stories: Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow women / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson -- Antidote to desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko's nonfiction / Daniel White -- Silko's blood sacrifice: the circulating witness in Almanac of the dead / David L. Moore -- Material meeting points of self and other: fetish discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's evolving conception of cross-cultural narrative /Ami M. Regier -- Cannibal queers: the problematics of metaphor in Almanac of the dead / Janet St. Clair -- The timeliness of Almanac of the dead, or a postmodern rewrite. edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) an…