Volume : III, Issue : IX, September - 2013

Native Sovereignty and Ethnic Chauvinism in Leslie Marmon Silko�s Ceremony

Dr. Rabi Narayana Samantaray

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In Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony the ethnic chauvinism of the Native American community finds a literary expression through their land which is often interpreted as having a healing effect on the community. This heightened awareness of the spiritual and redemptive power of the natural and the imaginative in Ceremony—the indelible link between land and story—is focused through the novel’s protagonist, Tayo, as he (re)engages with the Laguna Pueblo landscape in a specific way: “Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immemorial stories, as old Grandma called them. It was a world alive, always changing and moving; and if you knew where to look, you could see it.” Silko, like many Native American and Indigenous writers, sees an exact and direct relationship between oral narrative forms such as myths, ceremonies, stories and land or landscape which is reinforced in her narrative.  

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Dr. Rabi Narayana Samantaray Native Sovereignty and Ethnic Chauvinism in Leslie Marmon Silko�s Ceremony Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.IX September 2013

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