Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony : The Recovery

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition is a study of the embedded texts that function as the formal and thematic backbone of Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel. Robert M. Nelson identifies the Keresan and Navajo ethnographic

Robert M. Nelson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Richmond, Virginia.

Introduction	p. 1
Mapping the Embedded Texts	p. 13
Re-Fleshing the Backbone: Pretext and Prose Narrative in Ceremony	p. 19
Analogy vs. Homology: The Kaupata Motif	p. 27
The Hoop Series: The Spectrum of Storytelling Modes	p. 39
The Sunrise Series	p. 57
The Laguna Sisters	p. 65
The Backbone Series I: Departure and Pacayanyi	p. 75
The Backbone Series II: Recovery and Hummingbird	p. 83
Scalp Ceremony	p. 99
Betonie's Medicine: The Navajo Series	p. 107
The Witchery	p. 121
Arrowboy	p. 127
Mapping the Embedded Texts	p. 139
Laguna Sisters	p. 143
Kaupata	p. 145
Pacayanyi	p. 147
Hummingbird	p. 149
Arrowboy/Estoy-eh-muut	p. 153
Navajo Pretexts	p. 155
Notes	p. 161
Works Cited	p. 183
Index	p. 187
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Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony : The Recovery of Tradition

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