Coming home: storytelling, place, and identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of down and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

<p>"This analysis will examine authenticity through the conflated elements of identity, home, ceremony, and storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn. Coming home for characters Tayo and Abel involves redirecting of isolated individual energy to the whole community, enabling them to return to their estranged homes. Traumatic experiences in the war have alienated these men to the point where they can no longer claim place, identity or self. The author analyzes the ways in which these men have become "un-homed" as well as the various forces that "home" them. This thesis, on a larger scale, discusses how the two works collide and magnify meanings that can extend beyond the text"--Document.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA) in English: Literature

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Croft, Azalyn

• Momaday
• N. Scott
• 1934---House made of dawn
• Silko
• Leslie Marmon
• 1948---Ceremony
• 1934---Criticism and interpretation
• 1948---Criticism and interpretation
• American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism
• Indians of North America--Ethnic identity
• English Language and Literature

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Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/184

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.ewu.edu:theses-1183