![]() ![]() ![]() Silko herself has been remarkably candid about Almanac’s complex, decade-long genesis while she lived in Tucson, Arizona. Amidst over seventy characters and litanies of horror that range from police torture to child abuse to bestiality, Almanac is a novel that poses serious challenges to its readers, overawing and alienating them in equal measure. ![]() Silko’s notoriously difficult Almanac of the Dead (1992) by reading it bilingually-with an ear to both the English in which it is written and the Spanish to which it occasionally draws its readers’ attention.Īlmanac has become infamous among scholars of contemporary fiction and Native American writing: weighing in at 763 pages, it takes as its subject nothing less than ‘depravity and cruelty’ in the Americas since European occupation began in 1492, and works to prophesy the ‘eventual disappearance of all things European’ ( Almanac, 317, 570). Alvarez in Glasgow…Īs part of SALSA’s panel on ‘Español in Contemporary Fiction’ at the forthcoming Irish and British Associations for American Studies conference in Belfast (IBAAS), I’ll be asking how we can open up Leslie M. Pennington on Edward Hopper and Saltillo, Me… ![]() National Poetry Day:… on Spanglish as Resistance: Undoi… Nascita e storia del… on ¡Chicano Primero! Student acti… ![]()
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