Leslie Marmon Silko
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Louise K. Barnett and James L. Thorson.
Contributors: Barnett, Louise K.; Thorson, James L.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Silko, Leslie, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation.; 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.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Silko's power of story / Robert Franklin Gish; title: Introduction / James L. Thorson; title: Laguna woman / Robert M. Nelson; title: Silko's reappropriation of secrecy / Paul Beekman Taylor; title: Native designs: Silko's Storyteller and the reader's initiation / Linda Krumholz; title: To tell a good story / Helen Jaskoski; title: Spinning fiction of culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Elizabeth McHenry; title: Shifting patterns, changing stories: Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow women / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson; title: Antidote to desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko's nonfiction / Daniel White; title: Silko's blood sacrifice: the circulating witness in Almanac of the dead / David L. Moore; title: Material meeting points of self and other: fetish discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's evolving conception of cross-cultural narrative /?Ami M. Regier; title: Cannibal queers: the problematics of metaphor in Almanac of the dead / Janet St. Clair; title: The timeliness of Almanac of the dead, or a postmodern rewri