From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Date of Award
Spring 2013
Degree Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Committee Chair
Martina Sciolino
Committee Chair Department
English
Committee Member 2
Charles Sumner
Committee Member 2 Department
English
Committee Member 3
Linda Allen
Committee Member 3 Department
English
Abstract
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.
Copyright
2013, Sarah Marie Taylor
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Sarah Marie, "From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony" (2013). Master's Theses. 563.
https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/563