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

Edition First edition
Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1999]
©1999

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 DEN Main  PS3569.I44 Z77 1999     AVAILABLE
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Table of Contents
 Preface: Silko's Power of Story / Robert Franklin Gish 
 Introduction / Louise K. Barnett, James L. Thorson1
 A Laguna Woman / Robert M. Nelson15
 Silko's Reappropriation of Secrecy / Paul Beekman Taylor23
 Native Designs: Silko's Storyteller and the Reader's Initiation / Linda Krumholz63
 To Tell a Good Story / Helen Jaskoski87
 Spinning a Fiction of Culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Elizabeth McHenry101
 Shifting Patterns, Changing Stories: Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Women / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson, Malcolm A. Nelson121
 Antidote to Desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko's Nonfiction / Daniel White135
 Silko's Blood Sacrifice: The Circulating Witness in Almanac of the Dead / David L. Moore149
 Material Meeting Points of Self and Other: Fetish Discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's Evolving Conception of Cross-Cultural Narrative / Ami M. Regier185
 Cannibal Queers: The Problematics of Metaphor in Almanac of the Dead / Janet St. Clair207
 The Timeliness of Almanac of the Dead, or a Postmodern Rewriting of Radical Fiction / Caren Irr223
 Old and New Notebooks: Almanac of the Dead as Revolutionary Entertainment / Daria Donnelly245
 Mapping the Prophetic Landscape in Almanac of the Dead / Janet M. Powers261
 Leslie Marmon Silko and Her Work: A Bibliographical Essay / Connie Capers Thorson273
 Bibliography / Connie Capers Thorson285
 Index301
 List of Contributors317
  
Description xi, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Format volume
  
Bibliography notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index
Complete 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
  
Subject Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
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
Add'l Author Barnett, Louise K
Thorson, James L
  
ISBN/ISSN 0826320333
LCCN 98058048 98058058
OCLC # 40347552