![]() ![]() As Postcolonial critic Frantz Fanon would advise, Silko maintains that the cure lies in understanding one’s history and regenerating ties to nature and the land. Therefore, the novel becomes a manifesto of resistance against the imposed Euro-American culture and its narratives. Through dramatic episodes offered in the novel, Silko suggests that the main culprits in Native Americans’ cultural degeneration and aliniation are first and foremost oblivion of ancestral history/past and a loss of traditional connection to land and nature. In order to criticize colonialist-capitalist practices forced on the Native American cultures and societies, the author Leslie Marmon Silko, creating degenerate and alienated characters who are gripped by the realities of capitalistic neo-colonial structures, intends to draw attention to corruption and disintegration taking place in individual and societal levels. From a Postcolonial perspective, Almanac of the Dead is a novel which emphasizes the importance of land and history in Native American identity. You can say one thing for Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead it gives fair warning: The entire back cover of the book’s jacket is devoted to an encomium from Larry McMurtry, author. ![]() Almanac of the Dead shows how a disrupted relationship to land and history results in fragmentation of identity, cultural disorientation and societal degeneration for Native Americans. ![]()
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