Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead is indeed a thick book. The novel contains different cast of characters, which surrounds the story in historical, geopolitical, drugdealing and more subjects. In this book, the author deals with many issues related to American Indians, especially when the European conquest the land and its culture.
If you're interested in writing about this novel for your paper, maybe this link will help:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4128505 You can read the full article with Baruch Jstor Database.
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This something interesting I found on Wikipedia. I realize they are not an authority however the comments quoted by Marcos are relevant.
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Subcomandante Marcos has also written an essay in which he claims that the neoliberalism and globalization constitute the “Fourth World War.”[21] He termed the Cold War the "Third World War."[21] In this piece, Marcos compares and contrasts the Third World War (the Cold War) with the Fourth World War, which he says is the new type of war that we find ourselves in now: “If the Third World War saw the confrontation of capitalism and socialism on various terrains and with varying degrees of intensity, the fourth will be played out between large financial centers, on a global scale, and at a tremendous and constant intensity.”[21] He goes on to claim that economic globalization has created devastation through financial policies:[21]
“Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.”
Marcos explains the effect of the financial bombs as, "destroying the material bases of their [nation-state's] sovereignty and, in producing their qualitative depopulation, excluding all those deemed unsuitable to the new economy (for example, indigenous peoples).” [21] Marcos also believes that neoliberalism and globalization result in a loss of unique culture for societies as a result of the homogenizing effect of neoliberal globalization:[21]
“All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”
It is in this context which Subcomandante Marcos believes that the EZLN and other indigenous movements across the world are fighting back. He sees the EZLN as one of many "pockets of resistance."[21]
“It is not only in the mountains of southeastern Mexico that neoliberalism is being resisted. In other regions of Mexico, in Latin America, in the United States and in Canada, in the Europe of the Maastricht Treaty, in Africa, in Asia, and in Oceania, pockets of resistance are multiplying. Each has its own history, its specificities, its similarities, its demands, its struggles, its successes. If humanity wants to survive and improve, its only hope resides in these pockets made up of the excluded, the left-for-dead, the ‘disposable.’”
Funny how the book is outdated enough to not even predict the fourth world war. That future lies in spaceships and natives gaining energy to form spirit bombs like Goku to save Mother Earth.
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