Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body
- The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology of Publications and Events
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Genres
- Part II Critical Methodologies
- 9 Feminist Theory, Feminist Criticism, and the Sex/Gender Distinction
- 10 Reading Bodies and Textual Materialities
- 11 How to Read Disabled Bodies in History
- 12 How to Read Disabled Bodies Now
- 13 Health Humanities, Illness, and the Body in American Literature
- 14 The Indigenous Body in American Literature
- 15 The Black Body and the Reading of Race
- 16 Ecocriticism and the Body
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
14 - The Indigenous Body in American Literature
from Part II - Critical Methodologies
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body
- The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology of Publications and Events
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Genres
- Part II Critical Methodologies
- 9 Feminist Theory, Feminist Criticism, and the Sex/Gender Distinction
- 10 Reading Bodies and Textual Materialities
- 11 How to Read Disabled Bodies in History
- 12 How to Read Disabled Bodies Now
- 13 Health Humanities, Illness, and the Body in American Literature
- 14 The Indigenous Body in American Literature
- 15 The Black Body and the Reading of Race
- 16 Ecocriticism and the Body
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
In Leslie Marmon Silko’s landmark novel Ceremony (1977), Tayo – a Laguna man socially disfigured by losing his mother, suffering racism, and surviving combat in World War II – finally recovers his body by making love with T’seh, a mysterious woman living atop a sacred mountain. As Tayo’s journey to this place becomes more mystical by the day, we come to believe this injured man has entered a mythic land, where the Laguna rain deity takes him into her arms and melds him to women and earth.
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body , pp. 210 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022