Regaining the Past and Claiming the Future: Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Louise Erdrich's "Tracks"
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Authors
Stevens, Heather
Issue Date
1992
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Thesis
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en_US
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In this paper, I will focus on the
works of the prominent contemporary African-American writer Toni
Morrison and the prominent contemporary Native-American writer
Louise Erdrlch as regaining what their peoples have lost in their
relations with white European settlers in the "New World." Morrison
engages in what she terms the process of "re-memory" in order to
reconstruct the past of the African-American in the New World. The
past that she reconstructs provides a past that can foster pride in
African-Americans and that they can claim as their own. Erdrich does
not specifically address the topic of loss or regaining in connection to her
novels; however, she, and her husband Michael Dorris, are both highly
involved in political work for Native-Americans to regain lost tribal and
treaty land.
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