The Feminine Landscape in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Abstract

Whenever one sets out to read or analyse a novel or tale by an Indian writer, one must bear in mind that the basic reality experienced by tribal peoples and by Western peoples is not the same, and therefore Indian American literature will reflect basic assumptions and beliefs about the Universe which the western reader may not identify or be familiar with. As a matter of fact, western cultures tend to separate the material from the spiritual and supernatural, while for the American Indians the material and spiritual are different expressions of the same reality.