Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: A Casebook / Edition 1

by Allan Chavkin

Overview

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the most important novel of the Native American Renaissance, is among the most most widely taught and studied novels in higher education today. In it, Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. The fourteen essays in this casebook include a variety of theoretical approaches and provide readers with crucial information, especially on Native American beliefs, that will enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic. The collection also includes two interviews with Silko in which she explains the importance of the oral tradition and storytelling, along with autobiographical basis of the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195142846
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2002
Series:	Casebooks in Criticism
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.54(w) x 5.55(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Allan Chavkin is Professor of English at Southwest Texas State University. He has published four books and over thirty articles in various books and magazines.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Animals and Theme in Ceremony, Peter G. Beidler3. Circular Design in Ceremony, Robert C. Bell4. An Act of Attention: Event Structure in Ceremony, Elaine Jahner5. Blue Medicine, Kenneth Lincoln6. The Transformation: Tayo's Genealogy in Ceremony, John Purdy7. Forms of Biculturalism in Southwestern Literature: The Work of Rudolfo Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko, Reed Way Dasenbrock8. Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Paula Gunn Allen9. "The Very Essence of Our Lives": Leslie Silko's Webs of Identity, Louis Owens10. The Semiotics of Dwelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Catherine Rainwater11. The Function of the Landscape of Ceremony, Robert M. Nelson12. No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony, James Ruppert13. Contested Ground: Nature, Narrative, and Native American Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Rachel Stein14. Leslie Marmon Silko, Jace Weaver15. Silko's Arroyos as Mainstream: Processes and Implications of Canonical Identity, Kenneth M. Roemer16. Leslie Marmon Silko, Laura Coltelli17. Of Apricots, Orchids, and Wovoka: An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko, Robin Cohen18. Selected Bibliography