Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony"

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This paper discusses the novel, "Ceremony", by Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper analyzes the way in which myths and prose work together in the story and the effect that this creates. The papers also compares Silko's style in "Ceremony" to later works of her's and discusses some of the differences that are found between her earlier work and her later ones.

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"The publication of her widely praised first novel Ceremony in 1977 established Leslie Marmon Silko as a notable new talent in contemporary American literature. Modifying the traditional novel to reflect her Native American culture, Silko revealed a willingness to experiment with form that would continue to characterize her writing. The long-awaited Almanac of the Dead (1991) exhibited new facets of her extraordinary talent: this second novel is more complex, more shocking, and more apocalyptic than Ceremony in fact, than any other novel of the latter part of the century. Poised between these two texts, the collection of short fiction, photographs, and autobiography entitled Storyteller (1981) confirmed Silko's determination to alter traditional Euro-American literary forms to accommodate her own heritage."

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