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"Tragovi" Louise Erdrich: postkolonijalno postmoderno pismo američkih Indijanaca

This reading of Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks (1988) focuses on the debated relationship between postmodern literature and history, as well as postcolonial theory. Observing the signals of magical realism, Rabelaisian grotesque and the discourse of madness, as evinced through the characterization of Pauline Puyat, the analysis attempts to demonstrate Erdrich's postmodern strategies of historical revisionism and anti- imperial translation, and the concomitant synthesis of the postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. The discourse of madness identifies the wickedness, selfishness and corruption as the main features of Pauline's missionary pursuit, exposes the imperialist construct of indigenous identity, as well as the psycho-physical perils of its internalization. By problematizing and pluralizing the real in a typically postmodern way, drawing upon the techniques of magical and grotesque realism, the novel offers an ironical transcription of the binary dogma on racial purity and superiority. Attributing Pauline with the very traits that she claims to defy, Erdrich juxtaposes this dogma with the rhetoric of conversion, challenging the dominant epistemology, its colonial historiography, symbols and strategies.

Louise Erdrich; Tracks; postmodernizam; postkolonijalna književnost; groteska; diskurs ludila

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