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 | | For example, we are interested in the symbolic role that rituals and traditional myths play in the novel, itself a microcosm, an artifact of, an objective correlative for, an aspect of "syncretism" in its culture. |
 | | This savior, Waiyaki, is ultimately compromised and rejected by the community; thus, the possibility of interaction/rapprochement between traditional religions and Christianity, and of coexistence between colonized and colonizer, is rendered impossible. |
 | | Female circumcision, the issue around which the whole plot turns, becomes a means of examining the issue of gender in religion and of understanding that the performance or non-performance of ritual in a traditional community is a matter of belonging and not-belonging, of life and death. |
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