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Ceremony / Leslie Marmon Silko.

By: Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Penguin classics deluxe editionPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, c2006. Description: xxiii, 243 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0143104918; 9780143104919Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction | Laguna Indians -- FictionGenre/Form: Western stories. DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3569.I44 | C4 2006Online resources: WorldCat Details Summary: "This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair."--From source other than the Library of Congress

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Fiction	813.54 SIC 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Fiction	813.54 SIC 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Available

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Originally published: New York : The Viking Press, 1977. With new preface by author.

"This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Navaho young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions-despair. "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort and resolution becomes a ritual--a curative ceremony that defeats his despair."--From source other than the Library of Congress

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