Black Elk Speaks and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony: Two Visions of Horses

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Marion Copeland, “Black Elk Speaks and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony: Two Visions of Horses” Critique 24.3 (1983): 158-72

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If you’ve ever wondered how scholars invented literary animal studies, then go straight to the source. An astonishing example of close textual reading from the author of Cockroach, Copeland’s essay is one of the first to demonstrate how to read animals as animals in a text, not as stand-ins for something else, and in a way that anticipates the importance of doing so to indigenous, gender, and critical race studies today. - SUSAN McHUGH