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A 5 page paper which examines cultural conditions in the work of Leslie Silko. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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approach the natives with a very clear and romantic vision while others belittle the culture for its apparent inability to adapt and integrate themselves into the mainstream white mans world.
In short, the subject of the Native Americans, past and present, can be a very controversial one. And, when we add, into that mix, the current Native American writers who
do not cover up painful truths about the Native cultures, we then find many Native American people involved in their own form of controversial examination, with some saying the realism
is powerful and others saying that to portray Native American drunks, for example, is an outrage. Such conditions or realities pull into play the clashes between cultures in this
nation, as it involved the Native Americans. And one of the most powerful contemporary authors of such subject material is Leslie Silko, a New Mexico Native American. The following paper
examines Silkos portrayal of culture clashes in some of her work. Leslie Silko In researching into the life and work of Silko it becomes quite obvious that she
is something of an expert in relationship to culture clashes. This is due to the fact that she is mixed heritage, possessing Native American and white blood. As one critic
notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant being different from, and not
fully accepted by either the full blooded Native Americans or white people. Silko, despite her pain, was able to overcome the lack of acceptance and identify with the Laguna culture
Despite her keen awareness of the equivocal position of mixed-bloods in Laguna society, she considers herself Laguna. As she puts it: I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know
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