This collection of essays presents students and scholars of Leslie Marmon Silko’s work with a breadth of critical perspectives for reading Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, and Gardens in the Dunes. As part of Bloomsbury’s “Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction,” editor David L. Moore has assembled a series of short chapters that provide entry into literary analysis without relying on jargon. The book will be of particular interest to students learning to interpret novels and indigenous literature, as well as professors who want to introduce their students to an expansive set of resources to make sense of one of the most important contemporary Native American thinkers. The collection also makes a new contribution to the field of Native American/Indigenous literatures by putting forward three original articles on Silko’s most under-discussed novel, Gardens in the Dunes. The methodological strength of the collection appears in how the authors mine the archive of Silko’s nonfiction, unpublished texts, and memoir to bring out resonances between her fiction and biography. Carolyn Decker’s chapter “The Lost Women of Silko’s Ceremony” analyzes an unpublished version of the novel held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (79). Silko felt this early version of Ceremony failed due to her over-identification with the main character, a mixed-race woman named Angie seeking her own healing ceremony. The chapter takes on critiques of Silko’s weak female characters in Ceremony and provides the opportunity to revisit and re-contextualize representations of gender, trauma, indigeneity, and mixed-race identity in the text. The collection aims to place Silko “in the broad context of modern American and global literary history” (Moore 1) but at times falls short in engaging how literary studies in the Euro-American tradition can be incompatible with and hostile to the Native American literary critical project. This absence leaves the reader disoriented when one essay engages Silko’s Keresan pueblo cosmology on its own terms and the next uncritically applies Euro-American empirical and aesthetic logics to Silko’s work. The most obvious of these moments occurs in Chapter 8. In the midst of a fascinating reading of how Silko takes up the fiction of Henry James in Gardens in the Dunes, Lincoln Faller dismisses Silko’s epistemological stance and the significance of the Ghost Dance for indigenous spiritual and political life. Faller writes,

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Leslie Marmon Silko：仪式，死亡年鉴，沙丘花园编辑。大卫·L·摩尔

这本论文集为 Leslie Marmon Silko 作品的学生和学者提供了广泛的批判性视角，用于阅读仪式、亡者年鉴和沙丘花园。作为布卢姆斯伯里“当代北美小说研究”的一部分，编辑大卫·L·摩尔汇集了一系列简短的章节，在不依赖行话的情况下提供了文学分析的入门。这本书对学习解释小说和土著文学的学生以及想要向学生介绍广泛的资源以了解当代最重要的美洲原住民思想家之一的教授特别感兴趣。该系列还通过提出三篇关于西尔科最受关注的小说《沙丘花园》的原创文章，为美洲原住民/原住民文学领域做出了新的贡献。该系列的方法论优势体现在作者如何挖掘 Silko 的非小说、未发表的文本和回忆录的档案，以在她的小说和传记之间产生共鸣。Carolyn Decker 的“The Lost Women of Silko's Ceremony”一章分析了Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (79) 中保存的小说的未出版版本。Silko 觉得这个早期版本的 Ceremony 失败了，因为她过度认同主角，一个名叫 Angie 的混血女人正在寻求自己的治愈仪式。本章对《仪式》中 Silko 软弱的女性角色进行了批评，并提供了重新审视和重新背景化文本中性别、创伤、土著和混血身份表征的机会。该系列旨在将 Silko 置于“现代美国和全球文学史的广泛背景下”（Moore 1），但有时未能参与欧美传统文学研究如何与美洲原住民文学不相容和敌对关键项目。当一篇文章以自己的方式使用 Silko 的 Keresan 普韦布洛宇宙学，而下一篇文章不加批判地将欧美经验和美学逻辑应用于 Silko 的作品时，这种缺席会让读者迷失方向。其中最明显的时刻出现在第 8 章。林肯·法勒 (Lincoln Faller) 正在对 Silko 如何在沙丘花园中讲述亨利·詹姆斯的小说进行引人入胜的阅读，他驳斥了 Silko 的认识论立场以及鬼舞对土著精神和政治生活的重要性。法勒写道，