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In six pages this paper examines how 'home' and 'self' are conceptually depicted in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Beloved by...
This 10 page paper compares and contrasts the novel Beloved by African- American author Toni Morrison and Ceremony, by Native Amer...
it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...
that, in truth, Morrison never reveals the race of the two characters although most people will assume that one is black and the o...
This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....
This 4 page paper describes Toni Morrison's use of imagery and metaphor in her novel Tar Baby....
This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Sula. Primary source only....
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....
In five pages the social commentary featured in Walter Moseley's White Butterfly and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are contrasted...
In 5 pages Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony are compared and contrasted iin order to evalu...
the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism so much s...
In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...
visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...
by Gertrude Stein was a term she gave to a generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in...
In seven pages this paper examines Tayo's Indian community reassimilation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony. There are no other s...
In five pages this paper examines the metaphorical significance of the desert and its magical qualities for Native Americans in Le...
point Silko goes on to illustrate how she was taught, by her father, how to use guns, how to hunt, and how to always protect herse...
be a reality and that violence is often something that stems from such conditions as seen in the experiences of Tayo. Anger and ...
alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...
Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...
of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...
it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...
alone in the beginning of the novel and they will be alone again in the end as the efforts to truly colonize this little region pr...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
as we can see from works such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, slavery was a moral and psychological evil whose effects were felt -- and...
This 6 page paper discusses the concept of the separation between the Self and Other, as realized by Toni Morrison in her novel Su...
segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...
and a generation of the Pueblo men have been damaged by their participation in the war (Austgen). While Tayo and his two friends, ...