Femspec, June 1st, 2001
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony is a story about spiritual renewal and ceremonial recovery through the agency of a holy female figure and her animal allies. Ceremony, as a seminal American Indian novel focused on the theme of surmounting spiritual alienation caused by the influence of Euro-American society on Pueblo culture, requires that readers understand the roles that powerful animal spirits and their guardian, Yellow Woman,(1) play in both Southwestern tribal folk literature and within the life of the main character, Tayo. Bear, mountain lion, deer, and Yellow Woman herself are essential c...
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