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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moling, Martin

Titel

'Anarchy on the Rez': The Blues, Popular Culture, and Survival in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues

Ist Teil von

• American Indian culture and research journal, 2016-01, Vol.40 (3), p.1-22

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scholarship preoccupied with the blues in Sherman Alexie's work has been predominantly focused on how the music functions as a sign of the historical alliances between African American and Native American peoples, as a site for the confluence of nationalist and multiculturalist politics, and as a symbol of hybridization. In contrast, Moling concerns the ingenious way in which Alexie appropriates the blues both as a vessel for Native Americans to creatively express their predicament and as a subversive instrument in their struggle to resist colonial cooption. In investigating Reservation Blues, his debut novel, he demonstrates how Alexie creates a Native American version of the blues in his writing that appropriates musical staples of the genre such as the AAB stanza form, improvisation, and syncopation.