Negotiating the global and the local : Leslie Marmon Silko's almanac of the dead as 'Glocal Fiction'
- This essay explores Leslie Marmon Silko's fictional negotiations of conflicting and overlapping discourses from Native American and Euroamerican cultures in the transnational contact spaces of the Americas. The dialogic juxtapositions of a variety of cultural practices, ranging from indigenous prophecies to the writings of Marx, are central aspects of the glocal formations in Silko's Almanac of the Dead. The novel furthermore functions as a cultural representation and projection of globalization-from-below, i.e., a transgressive social movement which counters the effects of neocolonial globalization by a critical inclusion of global and local forms of consciousness and agencies.
