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Article: Silko weaves delicate web of tribal life
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 19, 1996
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YELLOW WOMAN AND A BEAUTY OF THE SPIRIT
Essays on Native American Life Today
By Leslie Marmon Silko
Simon & Schuster, 205 pp., illustrated, $23
"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit," the latest book by
Leslie Marmon Silko, a writer from the Laguna Pueblo tribe in central
New Mexico, is structured like a spider's web.
It begins with reflections on the land -- the center of all Native
American culture -- and then radiates out with many strands of
thought about human identity, imagination and storytelling. The
threads crisscross and overlap. Essays on politics and racism form a
middle section, and at the outer edges of the web are notes on some
of Silko's previous novels, tribal prophecies, ...