Native American Fiction
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نقد و بررسی
September 15, 2006
A noted Ojibwa author and professor of creative writing, Treuer makes the case for critiquing Native American fiction purely as literature, ignoring the author's identity, and thus the cultural context in which it is written. In assessing Louise Erdrich's " Love Medicine" , Treuer delves into the function of symbol and symbolic language in the novel, marveling at Erdrich's ability to work in two modes, naturalistic and symbolic, thus bridging the physical and metaphysical worlds. In the same vein, he claims that James Welch's " Fools Crow" should be appreciated as a "delicate web being spun for us, not with the strands of culture but with the silk of language." And Leslie Marmon Silko's " Ceremony " succeeds not because of the author's "authenticity" but because of her exceptional ability to juxtapose myth and metaphor. Treuer asks that novels by Native Americans be afforded their status as literature, not cultural artifacts, an argument bound to impact Native American literature programs. (See p.29 for a review of Treuer's new novel, " The Translation of Dr Apelles" .) (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)
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