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Prodigious Revisions in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

We depende on disaster to consolidate our vision.

Don DeLillo

Readers familiar with Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony are in for a surprise when they encounter Almanac of the Dead. Published in 1977, Ceremony has become one of the central texts of the evolving multi-ethnic canon of contemporary American fiction, and rightly so: it combines technical innovation with powerful linguistic vigor. Aside from the obvious difference in length (760 pages, to Ceremony's 262), Almanac differs radically from Ceremony ...

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