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

Biographical Information (Reference Collection)

• American Writers Suppl. IV (Ref PS 129 .A55)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series (Ref PS 21 .D5 vol. 143)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: Native Writers of the United States (Ref PS 21 .D5 vol. 175)

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)

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Online

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, MasterFILE Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Avila, Monica. "Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 67.1 (2008): 53+. [MasterFILE Premier]
• Chavkin, Allan. "The origins of Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Yale University Library Gazette 82.5 (2007): 23-30. [Academic Search Premier]
• 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+. [MasterFILE Premier]
• Goldstein, Susan Coleman. "Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 61.2 (2003):245+ [MasterFILE Premier]
• 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+. [MasterFILE Premier]
• Olsen, Erica. "Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 64.3 (2006): 190+. [MasterFILE Premier]
• Shapiro, Colleen. "Silko's 'Ceremony.'" Explicator 61.2 (2003): 117+. [MasterFILE Premier]
• Swan, Edith. "Laguna Prototypes of Manhood in 'Ceremony.'" MELUS, 17.1 (1991): 39+ [MasterFILE Premier]