Author : Robert M. Nelson
Release : 2008
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony by : Robert M. Nelson
Download or read book Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony written by Robert M. Nelson. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.