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- Title
Natives’ Naivety vis-à-vis Settler’s Skepticism and Bible’s Belief: Restoring, ‘re-storying’ the Native Ceremony in Silko’s Ceremony.
- Authors
Devi, Babita; Singh, Divyajyoti; Verma, Satinder Kumar
- Abstract
Missionaries were an important part of the colonizing mission. While the colonial armies committed massacres and subdued the militarily inferior Natives, the missionaries did a long lasting damage to the Native societies by obliterating their cultures. They not only converted the people, but also changed their worldview that was so important to them and the lands they lived in. The de-culturation of Natives is not only responsible for environmental problems, but also social problems like domestic violence and drinking. Recent studies have indicated that de-culturation of Natives is also responsible for endemic psycho-somatic problems of the Natives. The Native writers have understood that improvement in mental health of the Natives is directly associated with the resuscitation and restoration of Native culture. The literature written by the Natives works like an antidote against the atrocities committed by the whites. Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony is an important work of literature that tries to resuscitate the native culture. The current paper is a study of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.
- Subjects
INDIGENOUS peoples in literature; CEREMONY (Book : Silko); COLONIZATION
- Publication
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0975-2935
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21659/rupkatha.v11n2.06