Writing Water, Writing Life: Silko as Environmental Activist

Boyles, Christina

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“…Researches have also been done from the perspective of environmentalism. Grounded her work in a decolonial framework, Boyles (2018) highlights the relationship between water rights, climate change, and sovereignty, and promotes environmental practices grounded on indigenous knowledge. Tillett (2020) thinks that Silko's narrative of lived resistance tells us that we need to reject the unsustainable-the established narratives of domination and exploitation-and embrace and enact the sustainable: the indigenous tenets of grounded normativity (p. 206).…”

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Symbolic Meaning of the Wind—Journey, Initiation and Identity in Gardens in the Dunes

Cai¹,

Dai²

2021

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Silko, as a writer who attaches great importance to the landscape of the Laguna reservation, accentuates natural elements and imagery in her literary creation. Gardens in the Dunes is the most typical one. This novel is infused with a vast scope of flora and detailed delineation of weather to the extent that some even believe that Silko must be an expert in horticulture and meteorology. “Wind” is one of the most recurrent weather imageries in Gardens in the Dunes, ranging from the literary form of “wind”, “breeze” to “storms” and “hurricane”. Based on the analysis of the wind’s interaction with different characters and the roles it plays, such as “backgrounder”, purifier, facilitator, messenger, consoler, mentor and destroyer, the author is dedicated to elucidating that through depicting the “wind” in different circumstances, Silko reveals her advocacy of reconstructing female identity, her denunciation of imperialism and capitalism as well as her reflection on native cultures.

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confidence: 99%