Download e-book for iPad: Leslie Marmon Silko: A Literary Companion (McFarland by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

By Mary Ellen Snodgrass

ISBN-10: 0786448539

ISBN-13: 9780786448531

This spouse, applicable for the lay reader and researcher alike, presents research of characters, plots, humor, symbols, philosophies, and vintage subject matters from the writings and tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, the distinguished novelist, poet, memoirist and local American wisewoman. The textual content opens with an annotated chronology of Silko’s multiracial history, existence and works, by way of a genealogy of the Leslie-Marmon households that clarifies relationships of the folks who fill her autobiographical musings. usually textual content, 87 A-to-Z entries mix literary and cultural remark with beneficiant citations from fundamental and secondary resources and comparisons to vintage and well known literature. again subject contains a word list of Pueblo phrases and an inventory of forty three questions for learn, writing initiatives, and dialogue. This much-needed textual content will reduction either students and informal readers attracted to the paintings and occupation of the 1st internationally-acclaimed local lady writer within the United States.

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