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Full-Text Articles in Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority

Unsettling Identities In Two Novels By Leslie Marmon Silko, Olivia Smith Aug 2001

Unsettling Identities In Two Novels By Leslie Marmon Silko, Olivia Smith

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Throughout Native American Literature the state of identity in connection to one’s tribal culture, nature, and spirituality is vital to understanding both the struggles that Native Americans have endured during contact with Europeans and then Americans and the current ongoing cultural negotiations of contemporary tribal peoples. Native American writers use literature as a venue to reclaim and reconstruct identity, particularly in relation to a rapidly changing and commercial world.

Grounded in identity theory and Native American literary criticism, this thesis explores how Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko “unsettles” identities in her two novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens …


Pecan Grove Review Volume 6, St. Mary's University Jan 2001

Pecan Grove Review Volume 6, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


Pecan Grove Review Volume 5, St. Mary's University Jan 2000

Pecan Grove Review Volume 5, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


Pecan Grove Review Volume 4, St. Mary's University Jan 1999

Pecan Grove Review Volume 4, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.


Mariann Russell: Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery: A Literary Analysis, Grace Farrell Jan 1982

Mariann Russell: Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery: A Literary Analysis, Grace Farrell

English Faculty Publications

Book Review by Grace Farrell Lee.

Russell, Mariann. Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem gallery: a literary analysis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.