Ceremony: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Ceremony is a postcolonial novel, as well as an important classic within the genre of Indian American literature. Postcolonial literature critically examines the effects of colonial projects, mostly European and American in origin. As such, many postcolonial narratives are also trauma narratives, contending with the psychological, physical, and cultural damage done to colonized peoples. While Ceremony is a postcolonial narrative insomuch as it contends with the aforementioned topics, make no mistake—the "post" in postcolonial does not indicate that the colonial project has concluded. On the contrary, Indian Americans still suffer oppression at the hands of the US government.