leslie marmon silko's almanac of the dead

Swaying in the light wind, rags of clothing flapping the shrunken limbs into motion.

I must always return to what the white men kept hanging in all the lovely cottonwood trees along the rivers and streams throughout this land. And applaud as a silent witness to the fictional resurrection of a people and civilization so meticulously blotted out, first from existence, then from consciousness and memory. But what one can do is reverentially acknowledge the handiwork of this authorial anger, appreciate the blurred edges of a story - an important one - that emerge from the void of a mass amnesia and a carefully preserved collective delusion. Please send abstracts of 250-300 words (as an email attachment) and a brief CV, plus any queries to Rebecca Tillett ( by Monday, December 7th 2009.Ĭompleted essays will be 7-9,000 words, including notes and works cited, and in Chicago style/format, with a final submission deadline of Monday, 28th June 2010.There is, perhaps, no way to bestow readerly affection on a work so single-mindedly driven by an intense fury.  History and/or the intersections between Ĝritical and/or readerly responses to the text  Interdisciplinary and/or 'non-literary' analyses

Topics of interest might include, but are by no means restricted to:

Since the text focuses on inter-cultural and inter-national boundaries, conflicts, relationships and alliances, contributions from scholars outside North America are also welcomed, to reflect not only key textual concerns, but also the international impact of the text itself.Ī wide spectrum of responses to the text are therefore invited. Given the critical attention afforded Silko's other novels - the publication of a casebook on the 1977 novel Ceremony (Oxford UP, 2002) and a recent collection on the 1999 novel Gardens in the Dunes (Pisa UP, 2007) - a collection focusing solely on Almanac clearly addresses not only the critical silences and hostility of some of the scholarly responses to the text, but also a real gap in the critical work on Silko's oeuvre. Howling For Justice: Critical Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the DeadĬontributions are sought for a collection of essays offering a wide range of critical responses to Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991), from its socio-cultural, historical and political context, to its popular and critical reception.

Leslie marmon silko's almanac of the dead