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(0)Leslie Marmon Silko
1) Ceremony
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who...
2) Storyteller
Author
Language
English
Description
Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xxix, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The fifteen Native women writers in this book document transgenerational trauma, yet they also celebrate survival. This volume offers a sampling of two to three stories for each writer. These stories share an understanding of Native women's lives in their various modes of loss and struggle, resistance and acceptance, and rage and compassion, ultimately highlighting the individual and collective will to endure against all odds.