Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse
This study focuses in, particularly, on the study of the “culture clash reading” approach to Indigenous literature and examines the conditioned nature of this approach, its limitations, and its potential for harm to Indigenous agendas. Student engagement with Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse was obse...
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ftmarquetteuniv:oai:epublications.marquette.edu:theses_open-1673 2023-06-11T04:03:48+02:00 Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse Whetten, Hailey Hartma-Keiser, Steve, Majhor, Samantha 2021-07-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses_open/671 https://epublications.marquette.edu/context/theses_open/article/1673/viewcontent/Whetten_marquette_0116N_11745.pdf unknown e-Publications@Marquette https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses_open/671 https://epublications.marquette.edu/context/theses_open/article/1673/viewcontent/Whetten_marquette_0116N_11745.pdf Master's Theses (2009 -) Anishinaabe Culture clash Indian Horse Indigenous Ojibwe Wagamese English Language and Literature text 2021 ftmarquetteuniv 2023-05-08T06:40:00Z This study focuses in, particularly, on the study of the “culture clash reading” approach to Indigenous literature and examines the conditioned nature of this approach, its limitations, and its potential for harm to Indigenous agendas. Student engagement with Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse was observed in two undergraduate courses to study conditioned student literary analysis patterns and engage proposed alternative reading strategies inspired by NAIS methodology. Student interactions with and responses to Indian Horse are closely examined in alignment with Indigenous agendas. The study ultimately finds the “culture clash reading” approach to be problematic in its positional superiority of Western knowledge and inquiry and promotes NAIS-inspired alternative reading strategies as more closely aligning with Indigenous agendas, the primary agenda explored here being intellectual sovereignty. The benefits of the alternative reading have also been found to extend to individual student readers in engaging a more in-depth and deliberate reading of Indigenous literature. Text anishina* Marquette University: e-Publications@Marquette Indian |
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This study focuses in, particularly, on the study of the “culture clash reading” approach to Indigenous literature and examines the conditioned nature of this approach, its limitations, and its potential for harm to Indigenous agendas. Student engagement with Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse was observed in two undergraduate courses to study conditioned student literary analysis patterns and engage proposed alternative reading strategies inspired by NAIS methodology. Student interactions with and responses to Indian Horse are closely examined in alignment with Indigenous agendas. The study ultimately finds the “culture clash reading” approach to be problematic in its positional superiority of Western knowledge and inquiry and promotes NAIS-inspired alternative reading strategies as more closely aligning with Indigenous agendas, the primary agenda explored here being intellectual sovereignty. The benefits of the alternative reading have also been found to extend to individual student readers in engaging a more in-depth and deliberate reading of Indigenous literature. |
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