Its story? A man suffers because modernity has liquidated all the traditions that once gave etc. Because this canon is said to have abetted the oppression it otherwise seems to protest, however, readers are encouraged to seek their literary pleasures elsewhere-in Ceremony, for instance, Leslie Marmon Silko’s classic 1977 first novel, an explicitly counter-canonical spell against the white man’s reign cast on behalf of the Indians of the American Southwest. Can he get back to the garden-and if he can’t, can he live?Īs Hamlet and Don Quixote, this story sits at the heart of the modern western literary canon.
He violently lashes out at others and at himself in his balked longing to return to the matrix of meaning from which modern selfishness and atomization have banished him.
A man suffers because modernity has liquidated all the traditions that once gave stable significance and communal support to individual lives.
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