Consoling the inconsolable? Writing, telling and persistent pain in Robert Arthur Alexie’s Porcupines and China Dolls
This paper examines Gwich’in writer Robert Arthur Alexie’s 2002 novel Porcupines and China Dolls through the prisms of consolation and healing. It shows that Alexie challenges the widespread idea of reconciliation as a path towards closure. Drawing on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous critical theo...
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Main Author: | Franck MIROUX |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2024-12-01
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Series: | E-REA |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/19072 |
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