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Ceremony, by Silko
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- After Ceremony was published, some readers remarked on my male protagonist and many male characters, something of a novelty for female novelists in the English language.†
Chpt A.P.novelty = the quality of being new and original
- May the readers and listeners of this novel be likewise blessed, watched over, and protected by their beloved ancestors.†
Chpt A.P. *novel = new and original
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- At the time I thought it was odd that my book contract specified either a collection of short stories or a novel.†
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- I had no intention of writing anything but short stories for Viking Press; I felt confident about the short story as a genre, but aside from being a voracious reader of novels from age ten, I neglected to take that course the English Department offered on The Novel.†
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- I'd already started to write what would become Ceremony, but after I heard Nash and Ada Chakee were killed, I allowed myself to stray from the novel long enough to write the short story in their memory.†
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- Some days when I got to my office I didn't feel like working on the novel so I wrote letters to the new friends I'd met at a writers conference in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in June of 1973.†
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- The beauty of the carved figures lifted my spirits and I'd finally break down my resistance, and start work on the novel.†
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- Once I started writing the novel, the depression lifted, but then came the terrible migraine headaches, worse than any I'd had since the tenth grade.†
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- By this time, the novel was my refuge, my magic vehicle back to the Southwest land of sandstone mesas, blue sky, and sun.†
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- I wasn't just homesick for the sandstone cliffs and the sun; I missed the people and the storytelling, so I incorporated into the novel the old-time story about Hummingbird and Green Fly, who help the people purify their town to bring back the Corn Mother.†
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- The title of the novel, Ceremony, refers to the healing ceremonies based on the ancient stories of the Diné and Pueblo people.†
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- I was conscious of constructing the novel out of many different kinds of narratives or stories to celebrate storytelling with the spoken as well as the written word.†
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- At crisis times I completely forgot the novel, but afterward the need to return to the work became overwhelming.†
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- The novel was my escape, and I remember how I fretted on weekends because I was so anxious to keep working.†
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- I wasn't sure what I was writing qualified as a "novel."†
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- Before I began the funny story about Harley, I twice tried to develop a young female protagonist to be the main character of a novel; but I found I was too self-conscious and failed to allow my fictional woman to behave independently of my image of myself.†
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- In February 1974, I interrupted work on the novel to go to Bethel, Alaska, for three weeks to be a visiting writer in the middle school.†
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- After I returned to Ketchikan from Bethel I stopped work on the novel long enough to write the short story "Storyteller."†
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- As I neared the end of the novel, I knew what I had to write; all that remained was to do it.†
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- I remember typing that last word, "Sunrise," and feeling great relief and happiness that the novel and "the ceremony" were finished.†
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- I still wasn't quite sure if it was a novel, so I waited anxiously to hear from them.†
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- She said she especially liked the way I did not break the novel into chapters.†
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- I never should have neglected that course titled The Novel.†
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- But later, as I worked to break the novel into chapters, I realized it was not meant to be in chapters, so I left it as it was.†
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- Richard Seaver called a few days later and expressed his satisfaction with the novel.†
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- Mt. Taylor, or Tśepina, is a sacred mountain central to much of the novel.†
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- No book tour for a first novel, but Geraldo Rivera and Good Morning America did a short piece on the novel at Marlon Brando's suggestion.†
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- No book tour for a first novel, but Geraldo Rivera and Good Morning America did a short piece on the novel at Marlon Brando's suggestion.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(novel as in: a novel situation) new and original -- typically something considered good
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to a work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.