Contradicciones sobre la identidad nativa americana en la novela Ceremony y la película The Business of Fancydancing de Silko

Authors

  • Jose Fabián Elizondo González Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-30.14

Keywords:

native Americans, blood memory, cultural analysis, queer movies

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the protagonists of both the book Ceremony and the movie The Business of Fancydancing. Through the concept of “blood memory,” as proposed by Allen (94), these two characters reflect multiple shortcomings on either embracing or rejecting their cultural heritage.

References

Allen, Chadwick. “Blood (and) Memory.”

American Literature, Vol. 71. No.1

(Mar., 1999), pp. 93-116.

Jaskoski, Helen. Leslie Marmon Silko:

A Study of the Short Fiction. New

York: Twayne

Publishers, 1998.

Shanley, Katheryn W. “James Welch:

identity, circumstance, and chance”. The Cambridge

Companion to Native American Literature. Ed. Joy Porter and Kenneth

Roemer. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2005.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New

York: Penguin Group, 2006.

The Business of Fancydancing. Dir. Sherman Alexie. Perf. Evan Adams.

Falls Apart Productions, 2002.

Published

2021-06-17

How to Cite

Contradicciones sobre la identidad nativa americana en la novela Ceremony y la película The Business of Fancydancing de Silko. (2021). Repertorio Americano, 30, 261-264. https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-30.14

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How to Cite

Contradicciones sobre la identidad nativa americana en la novela Ceremony y la película The Business of Fancydancing de Silko. (2021). Repertorio Americano, 30, 261-264. https://doi.org/10.15359/ra.1-30.14

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