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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers:

A comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story Interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished A representative selection of critical responses Acomprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index

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Jaskoski (California State Univ., Fullerton), an expert on Native American literature and writers, provides the best critical account yet of the short fiction of one of the best known of Native American contemporary writers. This volume provides background information about Silko and the linguistic, social, and cultural contexts for her writing and her life. The inclusion of essays by Ruoff, Evers, Shanley, Francis, and Rader provides readers with a broad view of the criticism of Silko's work, but it is Jaskoski's analysis of the short fiction that illuminates Silko's skills as a writer. The emphasis on landscape and community are evident to anyone who reads Silko's works, and Jaskoski emphasizes those elements of her writing. Others have discussed the stories that appeared in Storyteller and The Man to Send Rain Clouds (although Jaskoski expands on previous studies), but this volume looks at some of the stories that are less well known. Interviews dating back to 1976 provide the reader with a view of the emerging writer, and the thorough bibliography leads to other works by and about Silko. Silko has said, "We are taught to remember who we are: our ancestors, our origins." Jaskoski demonstrates just how the writer has brought time and place together in her writing. A good choice for both undergraduates and more advanced scholars. G. M. Bataille; Washington State University