Article: Silko's Ceremony.(Leslie Marmon Silko)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

Leslie Marmon Silko once stated during a lecture that "the structure of Pueblo expression resembles something like a spider's web--with many little threads radiating from a center, criss-crossing each other. As with the web, the structure will emerge as it is made and you must simply listen and trust [. . .] that meaning will be made" ("Language" 54). Reflecting the Pueblo way of communicating structure and meaning, Silko begins her novel Ceremony (1977) with what may be a traditional clan story about Thought-Woman, "the spider" (Ceremony 1), who is able to create things as she names them. The link between the web of meaning in the novel and the creation of reality ...

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