Umfang:
X, 324 Seiten
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0802035671
,
9780802035677
Inhalt:
"In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States, Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker, employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality. While recognizing that humour and irony are often employed as methods of resistance, this careful analysis also acknowledges the ways in which they can be used to assert or restore order
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-297) and index
,
Introduction -- Spiritual transformations -- Generic transformations -- Histories, memories, and the nation -- Haunting photographs, revisioning families -- Space, place, land, and the meaning(s) of home -- Conclusion : intertextual conversations.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Kanada
;
Frau
;
Indianer
;
Lyrik
;
Humor
;
Ironie
;
Rasse
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Nationalität
;
Fiktionale Darstellung
