Heroes in Body Bags: Renegotiating Heroism in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning

Autor:	Lorena Bickert
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Anthropocene Ecocriticism Heroism Indigenous Futurism Ecological Other Community History America E-F American literature PS1-3576
Zdroj:	Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, Vol 21, Iss 1 (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1861-6127
DOI:	10.5283/copas.330
Popis:	This paper discusses how Maggie Hoskie, the Indigenous “hero”of Rebecca Roanhorse’s The Sixth World “series,renegotiates what it means to be a hero in the “post-Native Apocalypse”(Dillon 10). Trail of Lightning“,as a work that exploresIndigenous futurismsand ecofeminisms, demandsa renegotiation of Western hero ideals, highlighting how Maggie’s most heroic qualities arise from her challenge of stereotypical Western heroism in the wake of ecological disaster.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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