The Native sensibilities of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony that influence overall design, point of view, and character development, challenge the classically accepted definition of novel. Ceremony is a war story, and, like many others of its genre, revolves around the… Read More ›
Leslie Marmon Silko
The Native American Renaissance
An issue of much debate and contention is how to refer to people whose heritage goes back to pre-Columbian times on the North and South American continents. The term Indian is based on Christopher Columbus’s mistaken belief that he had… Read More ›
Feminism and Women’s Writing in the US
Women’s social movements in the United States can be divided into three “waves” (although these divisions are not strictly chronological or oppositional). First-wave feminism emerged from the involvement of women activists in the antislavery, temperance, and women’s-suffrage movements in the… Read More ›
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