“The gaping cut in the wire”: Transvaluing and Transgressing the Territory in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is imbued with a de-territorializing process, which permeates both its writing and serves to illustrate a form of resistance. Author Louis Owens depicts the notion of “territory” as the result of land grab and portrays the resulting territory as a place of containment...
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2024
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is imbued with a de-territorializing process, which permeates both its writing and serves to illustrate a form of resistance. Author Louis Owens depicts the notion of “territory” as the result of land grab and portrays the resulting territory as a place of containment whose main purpose is to confine Native peoples to marginalized places on the North American continent. Silko’s novel serves as a reverse re-appropriating gesture, playing on the limits and borders and questioning their political stability. Ceremony unsettles the reader’s conception of time and space by providing spatial and metaphorical transgressions which help sketch a middle-place, based on transitions and transformations. Ceremony’s deterritorialization helps shed light on the endless shifting nature of language and the space it depicts. |
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