Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and
challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more
widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that
their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit
discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion, medicine, science and
technology. Almanac's exploration of multiple forms of dispossession
and resistance is most fully embodied in the two Armies of Justice,
who are devoted to overturning oppression in all forms and to the
restoration of social and economic justice. Reading Almanac in the
light of the global economic recession of 2008, this study assesses
the ways in which Almanac's vision of oppressive capitalism continues
to have absolute relevance. Perhaps most importantly, this study
provides a groundbreaking reading of Almanac for the 21st century,
comparing Silko's activist armies with recent international popular
social justice activism such as the Arab Spring, the international
Occupy movement, and the Indigenous Idle No More movement.
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ISBN
9781623567873
Publisert
2017
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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