Metanarratives and Textual Ironies in Robert Kroetsch's "Gone Indian"
Metanarratives and Textual Ironies in Robert Kroetsch's "Gone Indian"

Summary/Abstract: The narrative structure of Robert Kroetsch's novel Gone Indian is multi-layered and abounds in the use of mythological fragments with special reference to the myths and stories of the Canadian past and present. Robert Kroetsch's use of myth in his novels, as well as in the novel Gone Indian, is exposed to parody and irony for he believes that familiar myths and stories must be "deconstructed", "uninvented" and "unnamed" (all his favored terms) as fictions.

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