Women writers and gender issues

Dyke, Annette Van

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“…Responding to the popular culture stereotype that Native American woman was often represented as princess or the ''squaw'' -''a violent, degraded, and filthy creature,'' Annette van Dyke (2005) wrote that American native writers have developed the literary works by exploring the authentic native tradition elements such as the belief in the sacredness of language and earth, representing the place and landscape in their original view, and highlighting their traditional values (McGrath, 2000). To erase the bad stereotype of princess or squaw, Native American women writers have had to address the misconceptions about the importance of women in Native culture (van Dyke, 2005).…”

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

Rahayu

2022

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Hogan, Linda

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2022

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020

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American Indigenous Literature in the Eyes of the Islamic University Students

Rahayu¹

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This paper aims at discussing Islamic university students' response toward an American Indigenous literary work, by applying "reader response theories" in a literary studies class. I analyzed students' response to the American Indigenous literary work. Rosenblatt (1938) noted that the quality of literature reflects human life and argued that readers' response to a text depends upon their cultural background and life experience, and their contextual reality, and others. She highlights the uniqueness of individual readers, as the consequences of their histories, belief, values, and context, which shapes their understanding of the text. The text selected in this project is a short story written by Sherman Alexie entitled "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" (in the collection of short stories "Ten Little Indian", 2003). The story narrates the experiences of an Indian man named Jackson who has become a homeless in a town of Seattle, and he had to take great effort to get back the regalia of his late grandmother in a shop. The selected work has American Indigenous setting, as the writer himself is an Indian Spokane and the narration in the text deals with the daily life of Indian people in American city. The students' responses are analyzed by culturally thematic analysis and there are three topics that interest students in discussing the work. They are the issues of regalia, the ideas of homelessness, and the drinking habits of the Indian people.

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Women writers and gender issues

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

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

Hogan, Linda

American Indigenous Literature in the Eyes of the Islamic University Students

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