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This book studies the revisionary mythmaking of Walt Whitman´s Leaves of Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko´s Ceremony. More specifically, it explores Whitman´s reworking of the Judeo-Christian Adamic myth in his "Children of Adam" poetry cluster, and Marmon Silko´s reworking of Laguna Pueblo and Navajo conceptions of witchery as well as the effects of such a reworking upon her presentation of Laguna´s foundational mythic narratives. This study considers each artist´s respective contextual foundations and specific revisionary strategies and purposes. It inquires into how Whitman and Marmon Silko´s engagement of mythic discourses functions within their poems/narratives; how it fulfills their socio-ideological agendas; how it interpellates readers as participants in their presented mythic (re)visions; and, ultimately, how it interpolates hegemonic societal conceptions of reality and offers more fully integrated approaches toward life.

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Sheri Chriqui´s studies focus on the culturally transformative potential that the presence of a mythic discourse, and the revisionary use of mythic narratives, grants a literary text, as well as the reconstructive implications of such revisions for socio-cultural perceptions of reality. She is an English teacher in the Los Angeles area.

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