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Leslie Marmon Silko
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…
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Leslie Marmon Silko is one of America’s best known Native authors. She grants interviews rarely, but the sixteen included here are generously wide-ranging and deeply honest. They reflect her heritage…
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Mary Ellen Snodgrass
This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots, humour, symbols, philosophies, and classic themes from the writings and tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko…
In Ceremony Silko recounts a young man’s search for consolation in his tribe’s history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. This casebook includes…
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In Ceremony, Silko recounts a young man’s search for consolation in his tribes history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. This casebook includes…
The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth in understanding of Native American literature in general and of…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Lullaby, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Editors Louise K Barnett and James L Thorson
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…
Silko’s first new work in 10 years combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world…
Now back in print-a classic work of Native American literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko’s groundbreaking book Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories…
In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and…
Helen Jaskoski
Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major…
Leslie Marmon Silko, Tommy Orange
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…
Rebecca Tillett (University of East Anglia, UK)
Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful…
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Yellow Woman, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Love Poem , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A major American writer at the turn of this millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been one of the most powerful voices in the flowering of Native American literature since…
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Four Mountain Wolves, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for James Joyce’s Leslie Marmon Silko’s Dead, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Man to Send Rainclouds, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
The timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talents
Dear Leslie: Of course I can’t know whether or not…
Linda G. Niemann
One woman’s unconventional path to self-discovery
Blanca Schorcht,Harry Robinson
This work approaches Native American literature from within an interdisciplinary framework that complicates traditional notions of literary origins and canon.
Blanca Schorcht
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Noriko Miura
In examining the work of three ethnic writers (Nakagami Kenji is Japanese burakumin, Leslie Marmon Silko Native American, Salman Rushdie an Indian living in England), this project studies the literary…
Silko, Leslie Marmon
From the author of Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead comes a sweeping tale of a young Native American caught between the cherished traditions of heritage and the culture of…
Leslie Silko,Melody Graulich
Yellow Woman stories, always female-centred and from the Yellow Woman’s point of view, portray a figure who is adventurous, strong, and often alienated from her own people. Ambiguous and unsettling…
