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Article: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko. (American Indian).
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko Ellen L. Arnold, ed. Jackson. University Press of Mississippi. 2000. xvi + 200 pages. $45 ($18 paper) ISBN 1-57806-300-0 (301-9 paper)
FOR THE LAGUNA Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, the sense of being within history and culture passes down through a strong oral storytelling tradition. Fitting, then, that editor Ellen Arnold culls fifteen interviews from a twenty-five-year period to weave a complex portrait of Laguna Pueblo-born and -raised novelist and prose poet Leslie Marmon Silko. Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko begins early in Silko's career as a writer -- in the late 1970s with the publication of her widely ...