Silko's book emphasizes the importance of storytelling in Pueblo culture, and discusses the implications of the ways the white man's culture has tried to destroy the tradition.
Silko's book emphasizes the importance of storytelling in Pueblo culture, and discusses the implications of the ways the white man's culture has tried to destroy the tradition.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition is a study of the embedded texts that function as the formal and thematic backbone of Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel. Robert M. Nelson identifies the Keresan and Navajo ethnographic prelexts that Silko reappropriates and analyzes the many ways these texts relate to the surrounding prose ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: United States Census Printing Office
Date Published: 1893
Description: VG. Large format hardcover, 136 pages includes index. This copy has been rebound in maroon buckram, and all maps and plates (4 in full color) are included. NOT x-library, although it appears that book was rescued after heavy use, and some of the B&W plates are smudged and have flattened creases. Missing tips of several pages were professionally repaired/reinforced during the rebinding process. Gold type on spine is bright, covers very clean. This is a solid copy ready for many more years of ... read more
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