Description
Book Synopsis"Ceremony" is one of the most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. This casebook includes theoretical approaches and information, especially on Native American beliefs, that should enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic.
Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Peter G. Beidler: Animals and Theme in Ceremony 3: Robert C. Bell: Circular Design in Ceremony 4: Elaine Jahner: An Act of Attention: Event Structure in Ceremony 5: Kenneth Lincoln: Blue Medicine 6: John Purdy: The Transformation: Tayo's Genealogy in Ceremony 7: Reed Way Dasenbrock: Forms of Biculturalism in Southwestern Literature: The Work of Rudolfo Anaya and Leslie Marmon Silko 8: Paula Gunn Allen: Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 9: Louis Owens: "The Very Essence of Our Lives": Leslie Silko's Webs of Identity 10: Catherine Rainwater: The Semiotics of Dwelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 11: Robert M. Nelson: The Function of the Landscape of Ceremony 12: James Ruppert: No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony 13: Rachel Stein: Contested Ground: Nature, Narrative, and Native American Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 14: Jace Weaver: Leslie Marmon Silko 15: Kenneth M. Roemer: Silko's Arroyos as Mainstream: Processes and Implications of Canonical Identity 16: Laura Coltelli: Leslie Marmon Silko 17: Robin Cohen: Of Apricots, Orchids, and Wovoka: An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko 18: Selected Bibliography
