Ceremony : Leslie Marmon Silko (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1986)
Preface: Silko's power of story / Robert Franklin Gish -- Introduction / James L. Thorson -- Laguna woman / Robert M. Nelson -- Silko's reappropriation of secrecy / Paul Beekman Taylor -- Native designs: Silko's Storyteller and the reader's initiation / Linda Krumholz -- To tell a good story / Helen Jaskoski -- Spinning fiction of culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Elizabeth McHenry -- Shifting patterns, changing stories: Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow women / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson -- Antidote to desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko's nonfiction / Daniel White -- Silko's blood sacrifice: the circulating witness in Almanac of the dead / David L. Moore -- Material meeting points of self and other: fetish discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's evolving conception of cross-cultural narrative /Ami M. Regier -- Cannibal queers: the problematics of metaphor in Almanac of the dead / Janet St. Clair -- The timeliness of Almanac of the dead, or a postmodern rewrite.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
Keywords: Silko, Leslie, -- 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century; Western stories -- History and criticism; Indians in literature; Laguna Indians in literature; West (U.S.) -- In literature