Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony; The Recovery of Tradition

By Robert M. Nelson

Book Overview

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 pretexts that Silko reappropriates and analyzes the many ways these texts relate to the surrounding prose narrative.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433102056
• ISBN13: 9781433102059
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Us
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"