• Postwar Reentry Narratives in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

    Author(s):
    Carrie Johnston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Women's studies, Women--Sexual behavior
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Women's gender, and sexuality studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6RK3Z
    Abstract:
    This article examines Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony alongside Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk to reveal the centrality of women’s textual presence in postwar narratives. While Silko’s novel incorporates female perspectives to construct productive and generative narratives, Fountain’s provides a warning about the sterile, ultimately destructive narratives produced when female voices are suppressed. Focusing on the formal elements of narrative focalization in both novels, I argue that women’s voices have the power to rethink the region’s intractable conceptual and geographical boundaries by configuring the American West as a regenerative space of reentry.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1353/sdn.2017.0037
    Publisher:
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2017-10-8
    Journal:
    Studies in the Novel
    Volume:
    49
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    400 - 418
    ISSN:
    1934-1512
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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