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題 名 | Writing Fever, Writing Trauma: Tropical Disease and Tribal Medicine--The Columbian Exchange in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes |
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作 者 | Huang,Hsinya; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 35:3/4 民94.春-夏 |
頁 次 | 頁155-205 |
分類號 | 874.57 |
關鍵詞 | Fever; Trauma; Tropical disease; Tribal medicine; Leslie; Marmon Silko; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | This paper studies Native American encounters with colonial disease and configures this disease categorically as “fever.” Fever is not to be seen as a pure physical symptom only, but is a cultural metaphor of Native trauma as well as a bodily reflection of the drought in Native homelands. Whereas trauma is understood as an inner inflammation of the psyche, fever is the acting out of such a psychological wound. It is a sign of disease, but it is, more importantly, that of resistance to disease. Using two of Leslie Marmon Silko's novels, Almanac of the Dead (1991) and Gardens in the Dunes (1999), I look into the ways fever becomes a finalized reaction of the Native American body defending itself against a pathogenic attack. I argue for the function of fever as the “working through” as well as the “acting out” of Native American psychological, spiritual, and historical trauma. Appropriating and reinventing fever as a cultural metaphor, Silko not only discloses the bitterness and poignancy of Native American traumatic history but locates tribal resistance and healing in the salutary value of fever to instill health, harmony, and balance in both the tribal body and the land. |
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