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This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.

Reference Books

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism (Ref PN 771 .C59) Volume: Pages
    • 23: 406-08, 412
    • 74: 318-20, 323, 329, 342-43, 347-48, 351
    • 114: 283-84, 286-89, 301-07, 326-27, 335-36 (see index for additional references)
    • 211: 244, 246-48, 250-55, 266-71, 307-10, 314-19 (see index for additional references)
  • Native North American Literature (Ref PS 508 .I5 N38 1994) Volume: Pages
    • : 579-81, 582-85
  • Novels for Students(Ref PN 3385 .N68) Volume : Pages
    • 4: 19-41

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

  • Allen, Paula Gunn, ed. Studies in American Indian Literature. (PS 153 .I52 S8 1983)
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Native American Women Writers. (PS 153 .I52 N38 2000)
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Native-American Writers. (PS 153 .I52 .N387 1998)
  • Owens, Louis. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. (PS 153 .I52 .O74 1992)

E-Books

  • Stanford, Ann Folwell.Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine. "All We Have to Fight Off Illness and Death: Leslie Marmon Silko's Vision of the Restor(y)ed Community in Ceremony." (pp.32-61) Ebrary
  • Weaver, Jace. That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. (see index) Ebrary
  • Brown, Harry J. Injun Joe's Ghost: The Mixed-Blood in American Writing. (pp. 241-43) Ebrary.

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

  • Avila, Monica. "Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 67.1 (2008): 53+.
  • Chavkin, Allan. "The origins of Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Yale University Library Gazette 82.5 (2007): 23-30.
  • Cutchins, Dennis. "So That the Nations May Become Genuine Indian: Nativism and Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Journal of American Culture 22.4 (1999): 79+.<
  • Goldstein, Susan Coleman. "Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 61.2 (2003):245+
  • Holm, Sharon. "The Lie of the Land: Native Sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and Early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" American Indian Quarterly 32.3 (2008): 243+.
  • Olsen, Erica. "Silko's 'Ceremony.' Explicator 64.3 (2006): 190+.
  • Shapiro, Colleen. "Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 61.2 (2003): 117+.
  • Swan, Edith. "Laguna Prototypes of Manhood in /Ceremony.'" MELUS,/ 17.1 (1991): 39+
Prepared by DeDe Elrobeh, Fall, 2008.

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