Indigenous Literary Re-Generations: Traditional Storytelling in Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Fiction
2018
Abstrakt
The paper examines the way contemporary writers of Indigenous origin work with the tradition of oral storytelling in their writing. It aims to investigate mainly the new generation of writers who implement traditional stories in their work, such as Lesley Belleau, Richard Van Camp and Eden Robinson but it would base its discussion of the findings on the use of storytelling and traditional characters in the novels by established writers (Tomson Highway, Thomas King) and compare their approaches.
The analysis will be centered around three characters of traditional Indigenous storytelling - sky woman, the elder brother and windigo and it will observe what meanings are (re)-generated by their employment in the narrative.