A War of Stories, Spirits, and Conspiracies in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay investigates the ways in which Silko, in Almanac of the Dead, attempts to expand the Native American storytelling tradition in order to facilitate the empowerment of political and narrative authority that has long been denied to the indigenous people in America, especially under the paranoid logic of American Cold War anti-communism. Subsuming Cold War history under the ancient history of Native American war for the land, Silko impregnates the mode of conspiracy narrative with Native spirituality and creates a genre of “revolutionary entertainment,” which, refusing to read Native American history in terms of victimization and pessimism, unapologetically revels in, rather than meekly or defensively exploits, the paranoid imagination and apocalyptic fantasy that characterize most white Cold War paranoid narratives. In Almanac, Silko unbridles the paranoid energy of Cold War conspiracy narrative and channels it into a cosmic narrative explosion of revolutionary fantasies and prophecies.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. Introduction
• Ⅱ. White Paranoia and the Politics of Conspiracy
• Ⅲ. The World of the Different and Native American Conspiracies
• Ⅳ. Conclusion
• Works Cited

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