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) and index. n-usp-- Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- Criticism and interpretation Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948- Silko, Leslie Marmon Women and literature West (U.S.) History 20th century Western stories History and criticism Indians in literature Laguna Indians in literature West (U.S.) In literature Indians in literature Laguna Indians in literature Literature Western stories Women and literature West United States Aufsatzsammlung 1900 - 1999 fast PS3569.I44 Z77 1999 813/.54 HU 8377 Leslie Marmon Silko Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1999 1st ed. (OCoLC)607207823 0826320333 9780826320339 0826326757 9780826326751 98058048 TAG TAGC DLC 981113 20240808153526.3 in00004815782 eng