The native american dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One good man”
The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea of the Indian identity and the Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One Good Man.” In this story, Alexie introduces the idea of the Indian constructed by the White Americans and attempts through his characters to redefine that conc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/697319 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/697319 https://dx.doi.org/10.6035/clr.2021.25.2 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Literary Theory Native American Literature Postcolonial Literature Postmodernism Sherman Alexie Short Fiction US Studies Filología |
| Sumario: | The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea of the Indian identity and the Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One Good Man.” In this story, Alexie introduces the idea of the Indian constructed by the White Americans and attempts through his characters to redefine that concept by deconstructing all the different stereotypes created by the White American society. In order to do this, he also introduces the idea of the American Dream that he calls the “Native American Dream” to express the social inequality and hopeless existence of the Indian community always immersed in an ironic and comic discourse. In this sense, Alexie proposes a new definition of the Indian identity looking back to culture, tradition and the space of the reservation. He creates in his fiction a space of contestation and resistance opening a new voice for the Native American identity. |
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