Native Amencan author Leshe Marmon Silko rehes heavily on her protagomst Tayo's connection to the Laguna reservation of New Mexico m her novel,Ceremony (1977). This connection is not only physical and cultural, but also psychological m nature.With true postmodern sensibihty, Silko constructs, deconstructs and reconstructs Tayo's psychological connection to his environment through a relational and ecologically based approach to the post-traumatic stress disorder with which he suffers after his mvolvement m World War II. Read alongside contemporary ecopsychological theones and practices, Ceremony offers an ecologically sound anecdote to the modem condition of human ahenation from each other and the natural world.
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