Exploration of the Divergent Cultural Relationships with Land in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

In her novel "Ceremony" exploring the different cultural relationships with the land at Leslie Marmon Silko's ceremony, Leslie Mamon Cirko reveals the myriad contrast between the White rancher and the Native American. When white people sprinkled themselves on the hills and valleys of the adjacent hills, local people learned helpless. The white man who is stealing stole the land previously not belonging to any single existence. Since they can not hold their land, Native Americans will continue to exist above the allocated land and can only try to cut down their legacy contained in the soil under the mountain.

Bennett is an English graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In the next article, he uses how the Leslie Marmon Circo novel "Ceremony" uses native Americans' cultural traditions and environmentalistic land ethics to create criticism of revisionists on American politics and history I will analyze. Leslie Marmon The central confrontation of the rituals of Silko is that Tayo's struggle against psychological integrity when confronted with various trauma experiences, from infancy difficulties to cultural alienation and during World War II battle experience is. In the novel as a whole, the secret of Tayo's psychological rehabilitation is that he rediscovered the cultural practices of Native Americans.

As an important person in the Native American Renaissance, Leslie Marmon Silco combines stories and rituals to form a story of cultural resistance and identity. After returning home from the Second World War, Tayo, the hero of the ceremony, experienced post-traumatic stress disorder just because his mixed identity was more complicated. Throughout his life Tayo's treatment tour, Silko imitates Native American ceremonies and regains the power of indigenous identities.

Author: Janet Thalmann, Ruth Benedict's Tribal Cultural Ethnography, Cultural Patterns and Leslie Marmon · West ERKE Novel "Ceremony" has three themes. Both clarify the matrix, the importance of harmony and balance and change, and the ritual of Pueblo Indians. It is worth noting that Benedict's book was written from a third-party view, whereas Silned provides readers with a direct view on this lifestyle (grew up with Laguna Pueblo Reservation). Because