Demarcation and Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge and Culture. A Deconstructive Study of Mad Bear
Literary studies have historically focused on Native American literature as a reflection of the cultural and cultural history that underpins anthropological research. However, recent studies in Indigenous studies call for the themes and perspectives that see Indigenous past and present writers working on the idea of a state of dissolution that will work to regain ancestral memory and recognition with hegemonic trends of Euro Americans among other things. This paper attempts to clear the obscurity that Indians and Euro Americans are happily merged now having their hybridized identities and culture. BOYD wrote a cohesive, or national, life narrative that works on the concept of storytelling and ancestral memory that revives the historical narrative surrounding the tribal-centric mission and contributes to the re-interpretation of the monarchy and colonial practices by Euro Americans.
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Separation, Preservation, Nationalistic Approach, Essentialist, Swerve, Ancestral Memory, Desecration, Tribal Centric, Transgression
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(1) Sanniya Sara Batool
Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Shahbaz Khalid
MPhil English. Department of English, Riphah International University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Nafees Parvez
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.