Abstract

The Role of Oral Tradition in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Lecturer: HAMEED MANA DAIKH

Volume: 10 Issue: 4 2020

Abstract:

Silko’s novel Ceremony has redeemed and reminded the other white Americans the status and the history of the land owner. Native Americans have been ridiculed for their ways of living, treatment, and education. Silko here wants to say that this oral tradition and storytelling have preserved the heritage of a nation and made the life possible and accessible. Without oral tradition, they will not have any history or existence. Silko shows the stories unfold, Tayo discovers his identity and place within his soul; the story represents a universe where he belongs. Silko has referred to through the novel that the main goal of the oral tradition in which she brought up is to engage the listeners and readers in the story that is told, to interlace listeners in the web of magical stories. In this way, Tayo and others will know how you belong. These traditions that incorporate Tayo into them have made this community. People tell stories about each other’s families and they begin to create their identity emphasizes that she offers spaces and universes for their listeners. What Silko writes about is not about a particular person or community but it is about history and existence of a nation’s existence.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i04.020

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