| Autor: |
SOBOTKOVÁ, HANA |
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Moravian Journal of Literature & Film; 2017, Vol. 8 Issue 1/2, p5-27, 23p |
| Abstrakt: |
The article explores place in the novel Nightland (1996) by Louis Owens, a Native American writer and scholar. The story is situated in an arid landscape near the city of Magdalena in New Mexico. The Cherokee protagonist realizes that the place where he lives is saturated with colonial violence. Its presence in the landscape directly causes the drought of the area, which makes the characters' struggle to support themselves extremely difficult. In the novel Owens contrasts the West as a place of popular imagery with its understanding in Cherokee mythology. He structures the novel as a New West novel where the story leads to the survival of the Indian characters, who are not portrayed as members of a doomed race but find survival in a renewed understanding of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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