ROLE OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN THE FIGHT FOR SELF-IDENTIFICATION THROUGH INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN WRITINGS Cover Image

ULOGA KNJIŽEVNOSTI I HISTORIJE U BORBI ZA SAMOIDENTIFIKACIJU NA PISMU STAROSJEDILACA SJEVERNE AMERIKE
ROLE OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN THE FIGHT FOR SELF-IDENTIFICATION THROUGH INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN WRITINGS

Author(s): Fahreta Fijuljanin
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Ethnohistory, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Интернационални Универзитет у Новом Пазару
Keywords: literary context; stereotype; indigenous; identity;

Summary/Abstract: When we discuss the indigenous North American writings, literary and historical concept occupies an important, almost a central part and role in the quest for self-identification of indigenous people. Novels, short stories and poems are the ones that carried the main burden of ratification of identity, self-identity and self-identification. Autostereotyping, which the 'Indians' were confronted with, and their struggle with these stereotypes is the main issue of this paper.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 13 (1)
  • Page Range: 135-144
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian