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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Leslie Marmon Silko"”.
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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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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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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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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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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, …