Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1535845333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1535845333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1535845333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's Love Poem
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535845939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535845939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 141035279X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 141035279X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Study Guide for Joy Harjo's "Grace"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410347206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410347206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ceremony
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Study Guide for Alma Luz Villanueva's "Indian Summer Ritual"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 153584518X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Study Guide for Alma Luz Villanueva's "Indian Summer Ritual", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 153584518X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Study Guide for Alma Luz Villanueva's "Indian Summer Ritual", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Storyteller
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143121286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143121286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and explores how stories and storytelling shape people and communities. Storyteller illustrates how one can frame collective cultural identity in contemporary literary forms, as well as illuminates the importance of myth, oral tradition, and ritual in Silko's own work.
Yellow Woman
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813520056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813520056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's "Yellow Woman" explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth.
Love Medicine
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Odyssey Editions
ISBN: 1623730384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the lives of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines are a testament to the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history.
Publisher: Odyssey Editions
ISBN: 1623730384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the lives of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines are a testament to the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history.
Laguna Woman
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912678122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912678122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description