| Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Contributor(s): Tillett, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 1623568412 ISBN-13: 9781623568412 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2018288763 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion, medicine, science and technology. Almanac's exploration of multiple forms of dispossession and resistance is most fully embodied in the two Armies of Justice, who are devoted to overturning oppression in all forms and to the restoration of social and economic justice. Reading Almanac in the light of the global economic recession of 2008, this study assesses the ways in which Almanac's vision of oppressive capitalism continues to have absolute relevance. Perhaps most importantly, this study provides a groundbreaking reading of Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies with recent international popular social justice activism such as the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the Indigenous Idle No More movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tillett, Rebecca: - Rebecca Tillett is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has published numerous articles on Native American Literature and Studies, plus a book-length study Contemporary Native American Literature (2007). She is the editor of Howling For Justice: Critical Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (2014), and (with Jacqueline Fear-Segal) Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing Relocating, Reclaiming (2013). She is also a founding member of the Native Studies Research Network, UK. |