Remapping Place and Narrative in Native American Literature: David Treuer's "The Hiawatha"

Autor/in	Kirwan, Padraig
Titel	Remapping Place and Narrative in Native American Literature: David Treuer's "The Hiawatha"
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 31 (2007) 2, S.1-24 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; United States Literature; American Indian Literature; Novels; Comparative Analysis; Literary Genres; Tribes; Criticism; Family Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; Literarische Form; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft; Kritik; Familienmilieu
Abstract	David Treuer's 1997 novel, "The Hiawatha," engages the traditional literary strategies employed by Native American writing, compares those strategies to earlier narratives (Native American and canonically American), offers a reassessment of indigenous novelistic structures, engages critical responses to tribal fiction, and does so in response to current discursive debate within the field of Native American literary studies. In this essay, the author aims to explicate Treuer's use of that style and how this usage facilitates a fresh sense of space within Native American fiction. Most particularly, this essay will examine a sense of space that makes palpable the potential directions open to tribal literatures and attendant criticism while remapping existing images of place and subverting notions of homecoming. (Contains 47 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. 3220 Campbell Hall, Box 951548, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1548. Tel: 310-825-7315; Fax: 310-206-7060; e-mail: sales@aisc.ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/aicrj.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10