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<p>The most effective political statement I could make is in my art work. . . . The most radical kind of politics is language as plain truth.</p><p>Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America's best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, and brilliant first novel <i>Ceremony</i> (1977) earned her recognition as a star of the Native American Renaissance. In <i>Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko</i>, her readers will find both the power that fueled her early work and an update on her recent career.</p><p>A MacArthur genius grant funded the beginnings of her second novel, <i>Almanac of the Dead</i>. This epic retelling of the 500-year history of the Americas took her ten years to complete. She intended her most recent book, <i>Gardens in the Dunes</i>, a historical novel of the Victorian era, as a reward for her readers who survived the fury of <i>Almanac of the Dead</i>.</p><p>Silko grants interviews rarely, but the sixteen included here are generously wide-ranging and deeply honest. They reflect her heritage of storytelling and give vivid accounts of her life experienc

Author

Leslie Marmon Silko; Ellen L Arnold

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781578063017

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities