| Negotiating History and Culture: Transculturation in Contemporary Native American Fiction Contributor(s): Hebel, Udo (Editor), Fitz, Karsten (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631371519 ISBN-13: 9783631371510 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $86.31 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 813.509 |
| Series: Regensburger Arbeiten Zur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik / Rege |
| Physical Information: 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Native American cultures have always succeeded to varying degrees in negotiating a balance between their tribal cultural heritage and the 'dominant culture.' In the present study, the meeting between these cultures is not interpreted as a clash, but as a cultural encounter in a contact zone. The concept of transculturation serves as a theoretical model to analyze how history and culture are fictionally constructed in contemporary American Indian literature. Developing a dynamic, dialogic, and reciprocal relationship between their native worldviews and literary techniques, on the one hand, and those of the larger society, on the other, the writers examined in this study - Anna Lee Walters, Diane Glancy, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Thomas King, and Gerald Vizenor - stress the processual nature of culture. These writers demonstrate that transculturation functions as a major strategy of survival for Native Americans in the past and in the present. |
