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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Leslie Marmon"”.
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
<p>A comparative analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels …
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The Story is Everything: The Path to Renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em>.
<p>This is a study of Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em> analyzing the process of renewal and the use of stories as guides.</p><p>Silko's work deals with problems faced by all who experience the death and destruction of war, a problem complicated by a Native American heritage. Tayo's struggle …
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From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's <i>Ceremony</i>
<p>Native Amencan author Leshe Marmon Silko rehes heavily on her protagomst Tayo's connection to the Laguna reservation of New Mexico m her novel,Ceremony (1977). This connection is not only physical and cultural, but also psychological m nature.With true postmodern sensibihty, Silko constructs, …
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Coming home: storytelling, place, and identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of down and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
… of identity, home, ceremony, and storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn. Coming home for characters Tayo and Abel involves redirecting of isolated individual energy to the whole community, enabling them to return to their estranged homes. Traumatic …
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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
… 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 apocalyptically …
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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
… 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 apocalyptically …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor target an audience with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King address Canadian beliefs in multiculturalism.
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Journeying to a Third Space of Sovereignty: Explorations of Land, Cultural Hybridity, and Sovereignty in <em>Ceremony</em> and <em>There There</em>
… have with their land; an example of this is Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Tommy Orange’s There There Despite modernity, assimilation, and ways of life introduced by settler colonialism, Native people maintain a relationship to the land, whether on a reservation or in an urban space. The …
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Seeking the chameleon: the influence of native rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature
… by the works of such Native authors as Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Allen Gunn. The manner in which Native authors have utilized modem technology and the "rhetorical or dialogic style" of writing is emphasized to illustrate how they attempt to restore the element of "phaedic language" …
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
… N. Scott Momaday and <em>Ceremony </em>(1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Both novelists consistently evoke animal imagery within their respective texts often pairing this imagery alongside symbolic and metaphorical depictions of cannibalistic identity violence. Through the use of posthuman and …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… Bullchild, Alexander Wolfe, Edward Benton-Banai, Leslie Marmon Silko, Stan Cuthand, Barry Ahenakew, Neal McLeod, Marilyn Dumont, Louise Erdrich, Mourning Dove, D’Arcy McNickle, Linda Hogan, Beverly Hungry Wolf, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Adrian Stimson and Thomas King. …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, this dissertation elucidates the nexus of political organicism, biopolitics, and state violence. It explicates how these novels utilize the cannibal trope to clarify the relationship between the "life" of …
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
… 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 murder ballad “Stack O’Lee and Billy Lyons.” Ethical and personal views of land and place offers a method for individual and cultural survivance. …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… study focuses on novels by N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Okada, and Louis Chu, it forces the distinction between war and postwar novels, and it analyzes the veteran as a strategic figure for embodying the discrepancies of American racial ideologies in theory versus practice. It …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, readily canonized by the literary establishment, are still influenced by the patriarchy. Queer voices that attempt to rediscover Native American’s past acceptance of multiple genders and sexual diversity, …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
… James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, readily canonized by the literary establishment, are still influenced by the patriarchy. Queer voices that attempt to rediscover Native American’s past acceptance of multiple genders and sexual diversity, …
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