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Title: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller
Condition: New
Subtitle: New Perspectives
Author: Catherine Rainwater
Contributor: Catherine Rainwater (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780826357274
ISBN: 9780826357274
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 30/07/2016
Description: As American Indian writers frequently remind their readers, storytellers wield formidable power to affect the earth and its inhabitants. This power is the same medicine power that inheres in tribal expression such as chants, prayers, and ceremonial rituals. Leslie Marmon Silko, critics point out, modifies literary genres to create the most effective medicine power. When Silko's Storyteller first appeared in 1981, critics were baffled by this complex text. Today it is a canonical work in the study of American Indian literature. The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth in understanding of Native American literature in general and of Silko's work in particular to unpack this fascinating work and its critical reception over the years.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Release Year: 2016

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