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The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. As an introduction to Native American culture, I teach Leslie Marmon Silkos novel, Ceremony (1986), in my American-novel class for college-bound juniors. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him.

He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Screenshot from YouTube of an Order of the Arrow ceremony, 2017. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. A former editor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures and longtime officer in ASAIL, the Association for the Study of American Indian. More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit

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