setting of Sherman Alexie's "What you pawn I will redeem." The story is set amongst the community of homeless Native Americans in Seattle, Washington. The story juxtaposes images of the tribal past with images of Indians in modern times. I explore t Continue Reading...
Sherman Alexie
There is no denying the fact that Sherman Alexie is a writer of considerable fame. A number of his literary publications have been transferred into film, which is generally a more lucrative market than books. When a writer's work of f Continue Reading...
He believes he can regain some of it if he can buy the regalia, and when he does get the regalia, he dances into the street as if the spirit of his grandmother were within him.
Jackson is not the only example of what has happened to the Native popu Continue Reading...
Frost, Hughes, Alexie
The Meaning of "Home" in Frost's "Hired Hand," Hughes' "Landlord" and Alexie's "I Will Redeem"
Robert Frost writes in "The Death of the Hired Hand," "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you Continue Reading...
The scholarly heroine of the library set tale, entitled "The Search Engine," turns to books and literature, for the "huge number of books confirmed how much magic she'd been denied for most of her life, and now she hungrily wanted to read every book Continue Reading...
While different views of the American experience, then, both of these stories and their authors are quite deserving of their place in the canon.
Edwidge Danticant's "Seven" is similar to "The Third and Final Continent" in terms of plot; an immigran Continue Reading...
Tale as Told by another Character: Sweat - Zora Neale Hurston
Sweat
The spring came along with its flare of sunny afternoons in Florida on that particulate Sunday afternoon. For a given number of women in the small village populated by the black pe Continue Reading...