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Mobley, Agnieszka - red. nauk. ; Fondo, Blossom N. - red. nauk. ; Filipczak, Iwona - red. nauk.
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identity ; cultural duality ; white hegemony ; in-betweenness ; Native Americans
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Cultural displacement constitutes one of the main features of colonial encounters. This is due to the different control mechanisms employed by the forces of colonialism to subjugate the dominated groups. This paper looks at one of the consequences of this cultural displacement which is the condition of in-betweenness in Leslie Marmon Silko`s novel "Ceremony". ; The argument around which the discussions are built holds that the encounter between Native Americans and the colonizing whites, resulted in the cultural displacement of the Natives with different aspects of the white power structure serving to separate indigenes from their native culture. ; Drawing from cultural duality theory as propounded by Dubois and Miley (1992), Borderland theory of Anzaldua (1987) and aspects of Bhabha`s (1994) cultural studies, this paper observes that whiteness acts as a force of cultural oppression in "Ceremony" which places the Native Indians in the discomfiting condition of in-betweenness, located as it were in a cultural-no-man`s-land. ; This produces a sense of restlessness and ambivalence as the Indians become bearers of contradictory identities. From this perspective, in-betweenness is read as a location of trauma for the Native Indians who find themselves not fully belonging to the indigenous culture, they have been brainwashed to repudiate nor to the white culture which they are in the process of embracing.
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Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
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Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego: Seria Scripta Humana, tom 15