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Playing with Cultures: The Role of Coyote in Sheila Watson's The Double Hookand Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Vincent, Douglas George Arnold
| Originalveröffentlichung: |
| (1999) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0004/MQ42701.pdf |
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| BK - Klassifikation: |
| 18.93 , 17.90 |
| Sondersammelgebiete: |
| 6.33 Indianer- und Eskimosprachen und -kulturen |
| DDC-Sachgruppe: |
| Ethnologie |
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| Bericht / Forschungsbericht / Abhandlung |
| ISBN: |
| 0-612-42701-3 |
| Sprache: |
| Englisch |
| Erstellungsjahr: |
| 1999 |
| Publikationsdatum: |
| 27.04.2009 |
| Kurzfassung auf Deutsch: |
| In Canadian literature, the character of Coyote, with its origins in the oral traditions of Native culture has been able to cross cultural boundaries between Native and Euro-American writers and act at a cultural intersection where relations between the two traditions meet at the level of myth and story- The complex characteristics of Coyote allow authors like Sheila Watson and Thomas King to incorporate Coyote into their fictions and meet their narrative purposes without violating Coyote's Native origins. In The Double Hook, Watson problematizes the character of Coyote through the use of parody in order to invest an element of mod ambiguity in the narrative. The morally ambiguous nature of Watson's Coyote protects the figure from reductive allegorization as a pseudo-Christian symbol and opens the novel to a more complex reading. In King's Green Grass, Running Water, Coyote plays an unpredictable, peripheral role in the satiric purpose of the novel, but Coyote's character and the way Coyote approaches experience function as models for the pattern of imagination that informs King's use of -King's parody not only serves the satiric aspect of the fiction. It creates an opportunity for King to extend the imaginative effects of his fiction by setting images and story patterns from two different cultural traditions in ironic conjunction to present a narrative that is, incongruous, and often humourous. In both novels, the role of Coyote is to open up the narrative and to solicit a careful re-evaluation of the issues in question. In doing so, Coyote demonstrates the value of cross-cultural encounter where differing traditions meet, not in conflict and competition, but in a spirit of mutual discovery. |
