Research Catalog

Title

Howling for justice : new perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / edited by Rebecca Tillett.

Publication

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tillett, Rebecca

Description

vii, 240 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book is a collection of essays by international scholars celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Silko's novel, Almanac of the Dead, and addressing those ongoing demands for justice. It offers new responses to Almanac's sociocultural, historical, and political contexts, and includes a new interview with Silko in which she reflects on the twenty years since the novel's publication"--

Subject

• Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-
• Social conflict in literature
• Social justice in literature
• Politics in literature
• Indians in literature
• African Americans in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Almanac contextualized / Rebecca Tillett -- "Sixty million dead souls howl for justice in the Americas!": Almanac as political activism and environmental and social jusice / Rebecca Tillett -- Tales of Trauma. Writing the unthinkable: Silko's Almanac and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Annette Van Dyke -- The Black Indian with one foot: reading somatic difference and disability in Almanac / Keely Byars-Nichols -- Disease, disability, and human debris: the politics of medical discourse in Silko's Almanac / Joanna Ziarkowska -- Allegories of Apocalypse. "Now we know that gay men are just men after all": abject sexualities in Silko's Almanac / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Silko's Almanac: engaging Marx and the critique of capitalism / Amanda Walker Johnson -- Rooted in the Americas: Almanac and Silko's environmental ethic / Graeme Finnie -- Unearthing the urban: city revolutions in Silko's Almanac / Ruxandra Radulescu -- Transformation and resistance. The hemispheric webs of the sacred and demonic in Silko's Gothic Almanac / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- Competing mythologies of inevitability and Silko's Almanac / Jessica Maucione -- The ground of ethics: Arrowboy's ecologic in Almanac / David L. Moore -- Indigenous cosmopolitics and the reemergence of the pluriverse / Joni Adamson -- Afterword: reflections in the twenty-first century.

Call Number

JFE 14-8362

ISBN

• 9780816513383 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0816513384 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2014001579
• 40024237562

OCLC

875674609

Title

Howling for justice : new perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / edited by Rebecca Tillett.

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Tillett, Rebecca, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40024237562

Research Call Number

JFE 14-8362