Leslie Marmon Silko : a collection of critical essays / edited by Louise K. Barnett & James L. Thorson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnett, Louise K.

Thorson, James L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Silko, Leslie Marmon.

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-.

Women and literature--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Western stories--History and criticism.

Western stories.

Indians in literature.

Laguna Indians in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

xi, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1999]

Summary:

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 latest novel Almanac of the Dead are examined here. The critical approaches range from close reading to the postmodern. This collection is essential for all serious students of Silko's writings.

Contents:

Preface: Silko's power of story / Robert Franklin Gish

Introduction / Louis K. Barnett and James L. Thorson

A 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 rewriting of radical fiction / Caren Irr

Old and new Notebooks: Almanac of the dead as revolutionary entertainment / Daria Donnelly

Mapping the prophetic landscape in Almanac of the dead / Janet M. Powers

Leslie Marmon Silko and her work: a bibliographical essay / Connie Capers Thorson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.

ISBN:

0826320333

OCLC:

40347552