Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie i Junot Díaz – buntownicy w objęciach fukú
Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie and Junot Díaz – rebels in the grips of the fukú

Summary/Abstract: This article draws on postcolonial and ethnohistorical discourses to explorehow contemporary ethnic minority writers use narrative strategies to explore the theme of post-ethnic identity. Focusing on Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Shermana Alexie’s Indian Killer and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Gondor-Wiercioch argues that all three writers portray their protagonists as hybrids to reconstruct for their readers alternative histories of their ethnic groups. Theemphasis is above all on events that are marginalized and/or passed over in silence by official history. The main characters in all three novels identify with mainstream American culture, but at the same time they attempt to define themselves in relation to the ethnic components of their identity. Minority culture is subject to self-criticism in each of the novels, but then the cultural burden is always viewed in terms of a heritage marked by colonial and neo-colonial experience.

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