University of Southern Mississippi
From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's <i>Ceremony</i>
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>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.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Masters Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Taylor, Sarah Marie
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Martina Sciolino
- Charles Sumner
- Linda Allen
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/563
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1638