Transkulturowe rekonstrukcje historii - 'Umiłowana" Toni Morrison i 'The Plague Of Doves' Louise Erdrich
Transcultural reconstructions of history – Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Louise Erdrich's 'The Plague Of Doves'

Summary/Abstract: Within a comparative analysis, the author interprets two American ethnic novels: 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and 'The Plague of Doves' by Louise Erdrich. She stresses particularly the aspect of the reconstructions of Afro-American (Morrison) and Indian (Erdrich) histories which in both cases are presented in a revisionist way through justification of the marginal discourse of ethnic groups at the expense of the official history discourse written from the perspective of the colonisers. Both novels highlight simultaneously the dark sides of stories told from the point of view of the colonised (the point of departure is a crime with participation of ethnic minorities) and both point to the necessity of working out an adequate poetics which would allow to faithfully depict the traumatic past and the lost present.

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