Preface: Silko's power of story / Robert Franklin Gish
Introduction / James L. Thorson
Laguna woman / Robert M. Nelson
Silko's reappropriation of secrecy / Paul Beekman Taylor
Native designs: Silko's Storyteller and the reader's initiation / Linda Krumholz
To tell a good story / Helen Jaskoski
Spinning fiction of culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller / Elizabeth McHenry
Shifting patterns, changing stories: Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow women / Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson
Antidote to desecration: Leslie Marmon Silko's nonfiction / Daniel White
Silko's blood sacrifice: the circulating witness in Almanac of the dead / David L. Moore
Material meeting points of self and other: fetish discourses and Leslie Marmon Silko's evolving conception of cross-cultural narrative /Ami M. Regier
Cannibal queers: the problematics of metaphor in Almanac of the dead / Janet St. Clair
The timeliness of Almanac of the dead, or a postmodern rewrite.