VOICE OF A HYBRID SPEAKING FROM A DISCRETE CULTURAL POSITION IN THE NOVEL CEREMONY BY LESLIE MARMON SILKO
Abstract
marginality and liminality, portraying characters caught
between one culture and another. The work represents a deep
cultural conflict in the mind of an American who is from mixed
ancestry. Ethnic nationalism and the recovery of traditional
culture a classic formulation: A group withdraws into itself and
labels the historically oppressive culture as the enemy. The
nation or group feels that its social oppression is inextricably
tied with the destruction of its traditional culture. To recover an
aspect o/the suppressed culture - even as fantasy - can be an act
not only 0/ revival but of subversion, a way of reifying the
oppressed group~ sense o/separateness and entitlement.
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