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Acho Patrice ADOUPO.

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History reminds us that Indians’ life has indilebly been marked by Christopher Columbus’s advent when he opened their doors to the whole world, forcing a cohabitation with the Europeans. This contact brough new lifestyles to the Indians, called civilization supported by Christianity. School then became the road to this civilization; destroying the young Indians, culturally. This civilization, with it school, teaches them that their ways are savage and their culture satanic — creating in their mind a confusion that leads to total alienation. Leslie Silko Marmon, in Ceremony (1977), helps us understand that the supposed civilization and Christianization are nothing than pure alienation. This paper will try to highlight to what extent Indians, in Silko’s Ceremony (1977), undergo this alienation and especially that of the Second World War veterans like Tayo – an unwanted mixed-blood who once back from the war was victim of tensions and an increasing feeling of estrangement – and how they manage to overcome it and succeed in the process of Tayo’s restoration through an Indian ceremony. The historical context of the novel drives us to a postcolonial theory and Marxism theory, due the Indians’ enstangement on their own land.

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