셔만 알렉시의 워 댄시즈에 나타난 아메리카 인디언 트랜스내셔널리즘

Abstract

Sherman Alexie suggests transnationalism as an alter- native strategy for the regeneration of Native American culture in War Dances. By transnationalism, on the one hand, he means minimalism, narcissism, and three major discourses in white American literature such as gender, race, and class. And, on the other, he expects Native Americans to overcome their nationalism, tribalism, and traditionalism on reservation. I investigate how Alexie successfully applies the conception of transnationalism in literary works as well as Native American’s daily lives. The final goal Alexie wants to achieve through transnationalism is to help Native Americans get back cultural sover- eignty. Native American traditionalists like Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, N. Scott Momaday, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn put Native American traditionalism in their first priority to recover the lost Native American culture. The result, as Alexie insists, is completely opposite: Native Americans have gotten worse until they have been regarded as cockroaches. That is why Alexie argues to introduce a new paradigm of transnationalism for another Native American Renaissance.