Traversing inward: faith healing through oral traditions in select texts of Easterine Kire and Leslie Marmon Silko
Cogent Arts & Humanities July 30, 2026 Riya Dutta, Seema Singh, Indranil Acharya
This essay examines faith healing in the select texts of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud (2016) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (2016) as a spiritual and ecological practice that extends beyond the biomedical paradigm of healing. By analyzing both texts, the study foregrounds how narratives of healing are embedded in the ecological consciousness of the oral traditions. Faith healing...