Dressing the Cuts of the Past, Seaming a Glocal Future in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156427 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu (Bogaziçi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 64-79 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718.2018.1466450 |
| OpenAlex | W2809556974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article focuses on two contemporary novels, Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness, which revolve around the ways in which two indigenous communities, the Chippewa of North Dakota, America, and the Xhosa of the Eastern Cape in South Africa, try to cope with the devastating effects of colonial invasion and exploitation of their lands and culture, and to maintain a sense of bioregional history and identity, while anticipating a future of fruitful interaction with global society. Both novels demonstrate the entwinement and interdependence of these native tribes and the specific natural environment they inhabit, both in the economic and spiritual sense, and underscore the importance of a sustainable relationship of communities with their local environment for a healthy and peaceful engagement among themselves and with the rest of the world. Various characters with shamanic features play a significant role in combining tribal lore with the emergent configurations of existence, especially in their capacity to integrate the material and the spiritual, the animate and the inanimate, as well as the past, the present, and the future. While exploring the links between shamanism and environmental consciousness in a global context, as implied by the two novels, this article will avoid homogenising shamanism into a conceptual category or flattening its contextuality
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Indigenous · Shamanism · Sociology · Xhosa · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Philosophy · South African History and Culture · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |