The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony" and its various characters. It relates the significance of the characters, including the bear, the mountain lion, the deer, and the yellow woman. The author recognizes the importance of the animal spirits in healing the main character by restoring his faith in himself, in the land, and in the ceremony.
In the following essay, Jones analyzes Silko's use of the traditional Yellow Woman myth as a means of presenting the stories of the Laguna woman, her mother, and herself--merging myth and autobiography.
he article discusses how the stories of Native American writers such as Simon J. Ortiz and Leslie Marmon Silko can show the connections between Native oral traditions and literature. It identifies the traditional features preserved in Native literature and ways in which oral tradition students can apply their knowledge to such literature. Stories by Silko and Ortiz that were originally published in Kenneth Rosen's 1974 anthology of Indian writing "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" are discussed.
An essay is presented discussing author Leslie Marmon Silko's literary influence on poet Joy Harjo. It defines Harjo's poetic figure Noni Daylight featured in books "What Moon Drove Me To This?" and "She Had Some Horses" as Harjo's alter ego. It mentions Silko's Yellow Woman, a character inspired by the Laguna Pueblo oral tradition.
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