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This study explores Almanac of the Dead, the Native American writer Silko's apocalyptic novel. This novel is a harsh indictment of the United States, and demands justice for the dead and the oppressed. In order to resist cultural and spiritual genocide, Silko, deconstructing the form of the novel, experiments with fragmented narratives and weaves dozens of interconnected tales to rewrite five hundred years of American history and envision a future where the tribal people of the Americas retake the land from governments that are corrupt at every level. So this essay is designed to elaborate one of the ways she replaces with Indian cultures those destructive western cultures which have oppressed the Americas throughout the past 500 years. Above all, she wants to alter the reader's sense of time, because Indian time is circular while Western time, justifying the European progress model, is linear. Further, each day has its own identity, and the day returns to the same place where the story had happened earlier but with its details changed. This process symbolically strengthens the potential for the ancestor's prophecy. Especially in a cycling time, a person is thought of as “a moving event shaped by and shaping human and non-human surroundings” (Allen 149). So in Almanac of the Dead, there is no character development. Consequently it means that to restore Indian time is to turn back to the pre-colonized time over the Americas, leading to a resurrection of Indian cultural identities.

목차

I. 들어가며
 II. 순환과 직선 : 아메리카 원주민과 서구의 역사관
 III. 시간의 정체성 : 인디언 문화의 르네상스
 IV. 나가며 : 거대한 원으로
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키워드

저자

• 이강숙 [ Kang-Sook Lee | 아주대 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813