Not Exactly: Intertextual Identities and Risky Laughter in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

Kertzer, Adrienne

doi:10.1353/chl.2012.0023

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“…One of important aspects in Alexie's work is humor. For Alexie, humor functions as his "green card" or his way of getting people's attention (Kertzer, 2012).…”

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The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine

Rahayu

2022

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The current paper examines the Native American people's identity, especially the main female character's cultural identity in the short story entitled The Search Engine. Sherman Alexie, the author of the story, is a Native American writer who harnesses the Indian identity as one of the main topics. The identity presented in the main character, Corliss, shows the challenges of the stereotypes of Native American girls. For that reason, the paper aims at exploring the new Indian woman’s cultural identity represented in the main character, Corliss, in the short story The Search Engine. The study applies feminist literary criticism that enables the writers to deeply explore the issue of woman's identity among the American native people. The main character, Corliss, shows the new female image identity, in which she can challenge traditional stereotypes of Native American women. Corliss is represented as a highly literate woman, with a lot of reading on English literary works, and has concern on her Indian-ness, which is often incommensurable to her big family’s views. The main character shows the new female image of an Indian girl evidenced in her excellent literacy and attitude toward Indian and White people. She has new consciousness in seeing the Indian men and women and their relation to White people.

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“…One of important aspects in Alexie's work is humor. For Alexie, humor functions as his "green card" or his way of getting people's attention (Kertzer, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine

Rahayu

2022

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“…Some postcolonial critics argue that often the usage of the term "authentic" is unproductive because in practice 'authenticity' can easily perpetuate stereotypes. For example, Clare Bradford writes "that the discourse of authenticity too easily invokes concepts of 'pure' or 'full-blood'" (as cited in Kertzer, 2012) thereby adopting reductive colonial categories. Thomas King "is also wary of the dangers of authenticity, calling it a 'racial reality game that contemporary Native people are forced to play'" (as cited in Kertzer, 2012, p. 70).…”

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