Reconstructing Reality
Chriqui, Sheri
This book studies the revisionary mythmaking of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. More specifically, it explores Whitman's reworking of the Judeo-Christian Adamic myth in his "Children of Adam" poetry cluster, and Marmon Silko's reworking of Laguna Pueblo and Navajo conceptions of witchery- as well as the effects of such a reworking upon her presentation of Laguna's foundational mythic narratives. This study co...