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This 13 page paper discusses various shared themes in the works of Silko, Castillo, and Morrison. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and were ignored. They were the oppressed. The majority of the United States, being of European descent, forgets that there were indigenous peoples who had lived on the American continent
for centuries. Their way of life and culture still manages to survive to this day, regardless of numerous attempts to erase it, through the literature of such writers as Leslie
Marmo Silko, Toni Morrison, and Anna Castillo. Themes of Alienation Silko In her poem, Ceremony, Leslie Silko ( a Native
American writer) shows how storytelling has exceeded its immediate role for passing down oral history or entertainment. The act of storytelling, she says is more an act of ritual and
ceremony to the land, the people and the spirit of survival than the actual content of the stories themselves. On the opening pages of her book, she seems to summarize
the feelings of all indigenous peoples in respect to the act of storytelling, and literature: "You dont have anything if you dont have the stories"(Silko 2). And yet, for many
decades after their removal from the lands of their ancestors, their way of life and their stories were suppressed. Alienated not only from the land that they loved, they were
forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a
result, not only did a physical relocation happen, but a spiritual one as well. The alienation came from within as well as without. For most of the conquered peoples their
whole worldview underwent a change. Gone were the ceremonies that provided the spiritual bonds and peace which they had known for centuries. The impact was complete and total. Silko, and
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