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September 10, 2025Journal of Foreign Languages Cultures and CivilizationsOpen Access

Myth as a Decolonial Force in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners

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DAD. Ram Aurvind

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This analysis highlights how myth reclaims cultural identity in The Diviners, suggesting its role in decolonial resistance against colonial erasure.

Key Points

  • Myth serves as a powerful tool for reclaiming cultural identity following colonial dislocation and loss.
  • The paper emphasizes that a poem in the novel illustrates the Métis children's estrangement from their ancestral roots.
  • Analysis employs decolonial theory to critique the erasure of Indigenous narratives and advocate for cultural recovery.
  • Significantly, the work posits that myth can function as both a site of cultural rupture and a source of revitalization.

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D. Ram Aurvind (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c194029b7b07f3a06189dchttps://doi.org/10.15640/jflcc.v13p10
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