VOICE OF A HYBRID SPEAKING FROM A DISCRETE CULTURAL POSITION IN THE NOVEL CEREMONY BY LESLIE MARMON SILKO

Sangeeta Jhajharia (faculty member of the Humanities and Sciences of Faculty of Engineering and Technology, M.I. T.S University, Lakshmangarb, District Sikar, State Rajasthan, India.)
Mamta Beniwal (scholan at Jai Nasayam Vgus University, Jodhpur, India.)

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 11, No 1: July 2011

The literature of post colonialism is a literature of 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.