The City as a Site of Trauma and Transformation: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
Cet article s’intéresse au sort des Indiens d’Amérique dans la ville, tel qu’il est reflété dans deux romans d’écrivains amérindiens, des Premières Nations : Indian Killer, de Sherman Alexie (1996) et Kiss of the Fur Queen, de Tomson Highway (1998). Alexie offre un traitement brutalement réaliste de...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:fmgbjGovc39ikasAK5TmE 2023-05-15T16:16:59+02:00 The City as a Site of Trauma and Transformation: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen Bak, Hans 2009-12-01 https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.1707 http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/1707 en eng Presses universitaires du Midi Caliban urn:doi:10.4000/caliban.1707 doi:10.4000/caliban.1707 http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/1707 other lic_creative-commons Caliban Native American literature urban Indians tribal culture intercultural Identity trauma amphibian art litt lang Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2009 fttriple https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.1707 2023-01-22T18:55:22Z Cet article s’intéresse au sort des Indiens d’Amérique dans la ville, tel qu’il est reflété dans deux romans d’écrivains amérindiens, des Premières Nations : Indian Killer, de Sherman Alexie (1996) et Kiss of the Fur Queen, de Tomson Highway (1998). Alexie offre un traitement brutalement réaliste de la vie urbaine et recourt à une écriture plate et sans fioritures, visant à la confrontation et au malaise, à la résistance et à l’indignation, et ne laissant aucune place à la rédemption ou au salut. Au contraire, le roman dense, riche en métaphores de Highway s’oriente vers la possibilité d’une rencontre entre des cultures incompatibles, irréconciliables, et s’adonne à un art amphibie, rassemblant une culture traditionnelle tribale et un modernisme européen et américain—un art incitant à réunir, de manière responsable, une identité interculturelle et une mémoire tribale et devenant ainsi, essentiellement, un "art de la ville". this article looks at the fate of Indian Americans in the city, as reflected in two novels of Amerindian writers, from the First Nations: Indian Killer from Sherman alexia (1996) and Kiss of the Fur Queen from Tomson Highway (1998). Alexia offers a brutally realistic treatment of urban life, using a flat and fiorous-free writing aimed at confrontation and unease, resistance and indignation, leaving no room for demorption or salvage. On the contrary, the dense novel, rich in Highway metaphor, moves towards the possibility of bringing together incompatible, irreconcilable cultures and engages in amphibious art, bringing together a traditional tribal culture and European modernism and an art that encourages responsible intercultural identity and tribal memory and thus essentially becomes a ‘city art’. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Premières Nations Unknown Indian Caliban 25 397 408 |
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Cet article s’intéresse au sort des Indiens d’Amérique dans la ville, tel qu’il est reflété dans deux romans d’écrivains amérindiens, des Premières Nations : Indian Killer, de Sherman Alexie (1996) et Kiss of the Fur Queen, de Tomson Highway (1998). Alexie offre un traitement brutalement réaliste de la vie urbaine et recourt à une écriture plate et sans fioritures, visant à la confrontation et au malaise, à la résistance et à l’indignation, et ne laissant aucune place à la rédemption ou au salut. Au contraire, le roman dense, riche en métaphores de Highway s’oriente vers la possibilité d’une rencontre entre des cultures incompatibles, irréconciliables, et s’adonne à un art amphibie, rassemblant une culture traditionnelle tribale et un modernisme européen et américain—un art incitant à réunir, de manière responsable, une identité interculturelle et une mémoire tribale et devenant ainsi, essentiellement, un "art de la ville". this article looks at the fate of Indian Americans in the city, as reflected in two novels of Amerindian writers, from the First Nations: Indian Killer from Sherman alexia (1996) and Kiss of the Fur Queen from Tomson Highway (1998). Alexia offers a brutally realistic treatment of urban life, using a flat and fiorous-free writing aimed at confrontation and unease, resistance and indignation, leaving no room for demorption or salvage. On the contrary, the dense novel, rich in Highway metaphor, moves towards the possibility of bringing together incompatible, irreconcilable cultures and engages in amphibious art, bringing together a traditional tribal culture and European modernism and an art that encourages responsible intercultural identity and tribal memory and thus essentially becomes a ‘city art’. |
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