Re/covering the Sacred Story: Sacrifice and Violence in Linda Hogan?s Powe

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Title:	Re/covering the Sacred Story: Sacrifice and Violence in Linda Hogan?s Powe
Authors:	陳吉斯
Contributors:	淡江大學英文系
Date:	2008-12-15
Issue Date:	2009-12-10 02:30:42 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	亞洲大學外國語文學系
Abstract:	In this paper I will discuss the complex relationship of recovering the sacred land and sacred lore. With a ritual-like parallel structure (1-9, 2-8, 3-7, 4-5-6), Hogan weaves a complicated interrelation among power, sacrifice, violence, and story. Underneath the demonstration of diverse forms of power relation—communicating with animal and spiritual world, practicing law hearing, and telling stories and lies—is the violence of sacrifice. The judgment of the visible violence of sacrificing the animal is put in contrast to the invisible violence of sacrificing the sacred land of the indigenous tribe. The most powerful revelation is the suppressed facts of the untold story about the true cause of the hunger and death of sacred animal and land—the encroachment of environmental injustice by US government. The complicity of sacrifice and violence with modernity will be investigated in light of Ulrick Beck’s “risk theory” (1992) and René Girard’s theories on “sacrifice” (1972) and “the scapegoat” (1986). The native struggles for sacred land will be examined with reference to Homi Bhabha’s idea on “the third space” and Kelly Oliver’s (2001, 2004) psychoanalysis of postcolonial psychic space.
Relation:	2008第二屆『全球化』與華語文敘述國際學術研討會 12-15~18:41
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