House Made of Dawn | Quest for Mythic Vision in Contemporary Native American and Chicano Fiction
In the following excerpt, Lattin emphasizes Momaday's presentation of the failure of Christianity in the Indian culture and the desire of the latter for a renewed reverence for the land in its mythic vision of wholeness.
The Native American novel House Made of Dawn ... presents the failure of Christianity. Further, its mythic vision of existence becomes an alternative not only to Christianity but to modern civilization based on secular, technological structures ....
Father Olguin reveals the inadequacies of Christianity for the Indian. Although attempting to live within the Indian community, he meets only with isolation and failure because he cannot understand the Indian .... Near the end of the novel, awakened from sleep by Abel's announcement that his grandfather is dead, Father Olguin...
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