The Violence of Hybridity in Silko and Alexie

Year 1997, Issue: 6, 3 - 9, 01.10.1997

Cyrus R. K. Patell

Abstract

The Native American novelists Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie are two writers who ponder upon the predicament faced by all US minority cultures: how to transform themselves from marginalized cultures into emergent cultures capable of challenging and reforming the mainstream.

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