TY - BOOK AU - Noor Elhuda Safwat Abdelhamied Mohammad AU - Fatma Moussa Mahmoud , TI - Authorship as an act of becoming in the novels of the native American writer leslie marmon silko / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Noor Elhuda Safwat Abdelhamied Mohammad , KW - Act of becoming KW - Authorship KW - Native American N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - The thesis shows that the emergence of bicultural native American authorship and literature is not a question of authenticity but of creatively responding to the forces of an alien presence. It is an act produced in a process of becoming in which native Americans learn to adjust and adapt the essence of their identity and tradition by adjusting and adapting the representation of these things in the American culture UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -