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Telling the Self in Leslie Marmon Silko¡¦s and Linda Hogan¡¦s Life Narratives

This thesis aims to analyze how Native American tradition storytelling functions in the life narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Linda Hogan¡XStoryteller and The Woman Who Watches over the World¡Xto portray the formation of the self which is inseparable from the themes of the stories that the authors constantly center on. I categorize their stories into three spheres¡Xthe land, the community and the myth¡Xand in so doing illustrate three dimensions of the self: the land-based self, the collective self and the mythical self. Through writing about the land, the community and the myth, indirect ways of self-telling can be observed and is worth further discussion. This thesis argues that it is through this indirect writing technique that Silko and Hogan are allowed to disclose their private selves without violating the Native American tradition and to turn the self-telling into a means of speaking for the community. In the end, this thesis will compare the selves that Silko and Hogan present in each dimension and point out that Silko¡¦s self is community-based while Hogan¡¦s self centers on the entire humanity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0809110-224802
Date09 August 2010
CreatorsTseng, Ching-wen
ContributorsLiu, Kai-Ling, Huang, Hsin-ya, Hung, Min-hsiou Rachel
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0809110-224802
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