Leslie Marmon Silko : a collection of critical essays / edited by Louise K. Barnett & James L. Thorson. - 1st ed. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1999. - xi, 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.

Preface: Silko's Power of Story / Robert Franklin Gish -- Introduction / Louise 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 a 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 -- Bibliography / Connie Capers Thorson.

0826326757


Silko Leslie 1948 --Criticism and interpretation
Silko Leslie 1948


Women and literature--History--West US--20th century
Western stories--History and criticism
Indians in literature
Laguna Indians in literature


West US--In literature

PS3569.I44

813/.54