![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps most importantly, this study provides a groundbreaking reading of Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies with recent international popular social justice activism such as the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the Indigenous Idle No More movement. Almanac of the Dead Author Leslie Marmon Silko Share Save Add to Goodreads To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go. Reading Almanac in the light of the global economic recession of 2008, this study assesses the ways in which Almanac's vision of oppressive capitalism continues to have absolute relevance. 1 1992 by Leslie Marmon Silko (Author) 151 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 57.50 4 Used from 57.04 1 New from 133.19 Paperback 29.26 17 Used from 24.33 15 New from 27. Almanac's exploration of multiple forms of dispossession and resistance is most fully embodied in the two Armies of Justice, who are devoted to overturning oppression in all forms and to the restoration of social and economic justice. Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion, medicine, science and technology. ![]()
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