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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.
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 (former - to 2024) |
| 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: | 24 Sep 2024 09:54 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9390 |
| DOI: | 10.1386/ejac.24.2.153/1 |
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