How and What to Recollect: Political and Curative Storytelling in Silko’s Ceremony

This essay examines the politically disruptive voices in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, arguing that her storytelling, which centres on “deferred action” as illustrated through the Freudian/Benjaminian notion of the return of the repressed, both undercuts the Euro-American notion of linear time involved with colonialist discourses and envisions healing by recollecting boundarylessness.