Ceremony Found

Sylvia Wynter’s Hybrid Human and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage77en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage96en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume12en_US
dc.contributor.authorObst, Anthony James
dc.contributor.editorEr, Öykü Dilara
dc.contributor.editorGerlach, Laura
dc.contributor.editorHussey, Ben
dc.contributor.editorNavin, Margaret
dc.contributor.editorPuccio, Daniele
dc.contributor.editorSchubert, Stefan
dc.contributor.editorSpieler, Sophie
dc.contributor.editorVogelsberg, Anne
dc.contributor.editorVossen, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-08T16:52:17Z
dc.date.available2022-11-08T16:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper engages Sylvia Wynter’s theory of the hybrid human as a prism for reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1977 novel Ceremony. Wynter’s work aims at decolonizing Western categories of knowledge, positing the notion of an Autopoetic Turn/Overturn to unsettle the coloniality of Man as an epistemo-ontological category. The epistemic break Wynter envisions to catalyze this unsettling involves an understanding of the human as a hybrid species, made up of biological as well as symbolic life, bios and mythos. Such an understanding of the human is revealed in Silko’s novel, as its protagonist, Tayo, undergoes a ritual of ceremonial healing that mirrors Wynter’s Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, disentangling himself from Western modes of knowledge by scripting a new story for himself and his people. Drawing on two of Wynter’s essays that carry “Ceremony” in their titles, my paper explores the intersections between Wynter’s theory and Silko’s fiction. By showing how Silko fictionally reenvisions new futures of being hybridly human beyond the category of Man, this essay points to epistemic pathways of decoloniality not predicated on anger.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.12-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2627
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldindigenousstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleCeremony Founden_US
dc.title.alternativeSylvia Wynter’s Hybrid Human and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremonyen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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