Pauline's Trickster Cure in Erdrich's Tracks

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Bong Eun Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제108호, 1~16쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.08.31

영문 초록

Some critics have interpreted that Louise Erdrich has revitalized indigenous oral charm in Tracks. Most of such acclaim focuses on Nanapush, an old full-blood male narrator of five chapters, paying little attention to another storyteller Pauline Puyat, whose narrative covers four long odd-numbered chapters out of nine in Tracks. To define Pauline, a fifteen-year-old mixed-blood female Catholic nun-to-be, as a trickster afresh illuminates Erdrich's contribution. Traversing the delusive understanding of the trickster with the authority to preserve and inherit Native American ethnic authenticity, Pauline's trickster discourse disintegrates factitious binary opposites-true or false, European or indigenous, Christian or indigenous, good or evil, normal or abnormal, moral or immoral-and remedies post-traumatic disorder stress caused by hegemonic binarism. Evoking unbound pleasure in the readers with Pauline's schizophrenic trickster narrative, Tracks opens a post-traumatic, ecstatic path to the boundary-free unknown zone of cure.

목차

Abstract

1. Insufficient Consideration of Pauline

2. Trickster, a Revolutionary Border Existence, Pauline

3. Pauline's Post-Traumatic Liberation

Works Cited

키워드

Louise Erdrich Tracks Nanapush storyteller trickster Pauline cure