Paula Gunn Allen
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Paula Gunn Allen was an American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's
Paula Gunn Allen (2007)
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Rena
Paula Gunn Allen
…drew heavily on the Pueblo tales of Grandmother Spider and the Corn Maiden. It is noted for its strong political connotations. Critics have noted that Leslie Marmon Silko, also of Laguna descent, also draws on these traditional tales. Her novel, The Woman Who Owned The Shadows (1983), features the woman Ephanie Atencio…
Silko at a 2011 reading