Towards an International Tribalism: The Politics of Spiritual Conspiracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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This essay investigates how Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel of revolutionary apocalypse Almanac of the Dead, envisions the alternative politics of Native American spirituality that could challenge the Cold War regime of cartographical imagination in which Native Americans are reduced to Third World others. In order to disrupt and dismantle the Cold War geopolitical continuum from Tucson, Arizona to Tuxtla in the Chiapas state of Mexico, Silko implies that a spiritual connection between the two symbolic locations must be recognized and rebuilt by the indigenous peoples of the American continent. In understanding the current Cold War geopolitical coalition between the imperial center of the North and the Third World periphery of the South as an extended history of the ancient spiritual conspiracy between European sorcerer-cannibals and Native American sorcerer-sacrificers, Silko proposes an alternative vision of international tribalism and spiritual global connectedness that could reject and transcend the false choices of the Cold War paradigm, whether it is Marxism or capitalism.
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This essay investigates how Leslie Marmon Silko, in her novel of revolutionary apocalypse Almanac of the Dead, envisions the alternative politics of Native American spirituality that could challenge the Cold War regime of cartographical imagination in which Native Americans are reduced to Third World others. In order to disrupt and dismantle the Cold War geopolitical continuum from Tucson, Arizona to Tuxtla in the Chiapas state of Mexico, Silko implies that a spiritual connection between the two symbolic locations must be recognized and rebuilt by the indigenous peoples of the American continent. In understanding the current Cold War geopolitical coalition between the imperial center of the North and the Third World periphery of the South as an extended history of the ancient spiritual conspiracy between European sorcerer-cannibals and Native American sorcerer-sacrificers, Silko proposes an alternative vision of international tribalism and spiritual global connectedness that could reject and transcend the false choices of the Cold War paradigm, whether it is Marxism or capitalism.
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