Leslie Marmon Silko (American Indians (Ready Reference series))

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Although Indian people have often felt estranged from written literature, Indian communities have long recognized the importance of storytelling and the power of language. Leslie Marmon Silko’s writing attempts to close the gap between oral and written stories and between Indians and literature.

Silko’s poems and fiction often draw on stories she grew up hearing at Laguna Pueblo in northern New Mexico. Of Indian and European ancestry, like many other Indian writers, Silko has used her position of being both insider and outsider to give her largely...

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