Memory as Medicine: The Power of Recollection in "Ceremony"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan J. Scarberry
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 19-26
Description
An examination of the use of memory in the novel Ceremony. The main character Tayo has painful memories he is trying to forget but as the novel progresses he learns to embrace memories of his Indigenous traditions as a way to control his own life.