Howling for Justice New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead / edited by Rebecca Tillett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tillett, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Indians in literature.

Politics in literature.

Social justice in literature.

Social conflict in literature.

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Almanac of the dead.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book is a collection of essays by international scholars celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Silko's novel, Almanac of the Dead, and addressing those ongoing demands for justice. It offers new responses to Almanac's sociocultural, historical, and political contexts, and includes a new interview with Silko in which she reflects on the twenty years since the novel's publication"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Almanac contextualised / Rebecca Tillett

"Sixty million dead souls howl for justice in the Americas!": Almanac as political activism and environmental and social jusice / Rebecca Tillett

Tales of Trauma. Writing the unthinkable: Silko's Almanac and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Annette Van Dyke

The Black Indian with one foot: reading somatic difference and disability in Almanac / Keely Byars-Nichols

Disease, disability, and human debris: the politics of medical discourse in Silko's Almanac / Joanna Ziarkowska

Allegories of Apocalypse. "Now we know that gay men are just men after all": abject sexualities in Silko's Almanac / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung

Silko's Almanac: engaging Marx and the critique of capitalism / Amanda Walker Johnson

Rooted in the Americas: Almanac and Silko's environmental ethic / Graeme Finnie

Unearthing the urban: city revolutions in Silko's Almanac / Ruxandra Radulescu

Transformation and resistance. The hemispheric webs of the sacred and demonic in Silko's Gothic Almanac / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez

Competing mythologies of inevitability and Silko's Almanac / Jessica Maucione

The ground of ethics: Arrowboy's ecologic in Almanac / David L. Moore

Indigenous cosmopolitics and the reemergence of the pluriverse / Joni Adamson

Afterword: reflections in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-9859-2

OCLC:

893685796