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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Almanac of the Dead"”.
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The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead
This thesis explores the tropes of the garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies the modes of resistance and ecological ethics of Silko’s counternarratives to Western thought paradigms. Silko’s fiction is often characterized as …
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The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead
This thesis explores the tropes of the garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies the modes of resistance and ecological ethics of Silko’s counternarratives to Western thought paradigms. Silko’s fiction is often characterized as …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
States of Savagery argues that, more than just the consumption of individual bodies, cannibalism figures the political struggle to define the boundaries between self and other, as well as the dangers inherent in this struggle--the possible eradication of the personal and social body. Cannibalism …
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
<p>The relationships between place, narrative, memory, and identity are integral in many oral traditions. This project considers place as actively shaping Sterling’s identity in Laguna author Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel <em>Almanac of the Dead </em>and R.L. Burnside’s rendition of the popular …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion still exists in the postcolonial era. In the past many North American indigenous …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion still exists in the postcolonial era. In the past many North American indigenous …
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Forgotten Pueblos: La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Cultural Politics of Indo-Hispano
As one of the formative organizations of the Chicana/o movement in the 1960s and '70s, La Alianza Federal de Mercedes waged a dynamic and controversial campaign in New Mexico for the recovery of Mexican and Spanish land grants that had been lost in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War in the …