Reality consumed by realty: The ecological costs of ‘development’ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

Tillett, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2219-6713 (2005) Reality consumed by realty: The ecological costs of ‘development’ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. European Journal of American Culture, 24 (2). pp. 153-169.

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Abstract

Published to coincide with the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of the New World, the Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s apocalyptic 1991 novel, Almanac of the Dead, is a harsh highly politicized indictment of 500 years of colonialism, inhumanity and genocide. Silko clearly presents a diverse range of pertinent political issues that are of crucial significance to many contemporary tribal communities within the United States. This article analyses Silko’s concern with ecological issues; with the symbiotic relationship between Native American communities and the land; with the ways in which contemporary exploitation of both Native American lands and their natural resources by the highly powerful energy multinationals are replacing the symbiotic with the parasitic; and with the potential human and ecological costs.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User: EPrints Services
Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2010 13:57
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:28
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9390
DOI: 10.1386/ejac.24.2.153/1

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