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Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
- Series:
- Contemporary American fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Veterans.
- Laguna Indians.
- Laguna Indians--Fiction.
- Literature, Modern.
- United States.
- Indians, North American.
- New Mexico.
- Medical Subjects:
- Literature, Modern.
- United States.
- Indians, North American.
- New Mexico.
- Veterans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Western stories.
- Western fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986.
- Summary:
- This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1977.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0140086838
- 9780140086836
- 9780143104919
- 0143104918
- OCLC:
- 12554441
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