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" Silko : "
Brewster E. Fitz
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BL
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701774
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b523963
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| Main Entry
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Fitz, Brewster E., (Brewster Edmunds),1941-
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Silko : : writing storyteller and medicine woman /\ Brewster E. Fitz
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| Publication Statement
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, [2004]
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, ©2004
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| Series Statement
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American Indian literature and critical studies series ;; v. 47
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xii, 288 pages ;; 22 cm
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0806135840
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: 0806137258
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: 9780806135847
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: 9780806137254
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index
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| Contents
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The writing storyteller -- Bears: writing and madness -- Back to the text: "Lullaby" -- "The Battle of Pie Town," or Littlecock's Last Stand -- Dialogic witchery in "Tony's Story" -- Coyote loops: Leslie Marmon Silko holds a full house in her hand -- Almanac of the Dead -- Tolle, Lege: glossing glossolalia in Gardens in the Dunes
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Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo Native American was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. She also grew up in a household where books were cherished and reading at the dinner table was not deemed rude, but instead was encouraged. In his examination of Silko's literature, the author explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word, revealing how it carries over from Silko's upbringing and plays out in her writings. Focusing on critical essays by and interviews with Silko, the author argues that Silko's storytelling is informed not so much by oral Laguna culture as by the Marmon family tradition in which writing was internalized long before her birth. In Silko's writings, this conflicted desire between the oral and the written evolves into a yearning for a paradoxical written orality that would conceivably function as a perfect, nonmediated language. The critical focus on orality in Native literature has kept the equally important tradition of Native writing from being honored. By offering close readings of stories from Storyteller and Ceremony, as well as passages from Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes, the author shows how Silko weaves the oral and the written, the spirit and the flesh, into a new vision of Pueblo culture. As he asserts, Silko's written word, rather than obscuring or destroying her culture's oral tradition, serves instead to sharpen it
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Silko, Leslie Marmon,1948-Criticism and interpretation
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Indians in literature
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Oral tradition-- West (U.S.)
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Pueblo Indians-- Intellectual life
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Western stories-- History and criticism
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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West (U.S.), In literature
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3569.I44Z66 2004
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