ENGL 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: American Indian Movement, Mixed Language, Hyperbole
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Native american poetry: draws on native american culture. Crows, coyotes: exploration of contact between colonizer and indigenous people, shines light soon silenced native american culture and identity, questioning what happened, depicting bleak contemporary reality, mixes language. Rise of ethnic self-consciousness: american indian movement. Militant civil rights organization in 60s and 70s. Native american poetics: uses linguistic hybridization, being in-between languages, cultures and identity, encounters between white and native people, postcolonial reality. Including bleak truth: revitalizing elements of native american life. Coyote story: type of myth, trickster/ clown. Sometimes noble or malicious: transformative power. Toe"osh: story telling, spanish conquering indians, mixed language, other animals, land, balance of power. Alexie"s poetics: experience of growing up on a reservation, tension between pop culture and native identity , exploitation and appropriation, sarcasm and irony, narrative or lyric. Bu alo bill"s wild west shows: circus, drama and rodeo, binary between wild and progressive , pageant of settling and taming the west.
