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Oceanstory

novella by Silko
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Oceanstory is a novella by Leslie Marmon Silko, published in 2011 as an e-book. The story is partly set in Tucson, Arizona, and partly in a seaside town in Mexico. It explores themes such as paranoia and the falsity of the American Dream. Silko, an American poet and novelist, is known for her work that often examines the tension between Native and white cultures. Her writing frequently draws on Laguna traditions and myths, integrating concerns of Laguna spirituality with contemporary struggles to maintain Native culture.1

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  1. Leslie Marmon Silko
  2. mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas - General characteristics
  3. mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Arctic

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