ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.09.030
Colonization Trauma Writing in Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Chao Wang*, Fengshan Liu
School of Foreign Languages, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China.
*Corresponding author: Chao Wang
Published: October 19,2022
Abstract
Shadow Tag is one of the representative works of Louise Erdrich. It takes a modern native American family in Twin cities of Minnesota as its trauma narrative space, and depicting the substantial trauma raised by the colonized history of native Americans to their national psychology. This paper explores from executing text reading to elaborate on how Erdrich established the metaphorical world of a modern native-American family in Shadow Tag. Whereby the metaphorical world of this novel, Erdrich reveals the historical memory and colonial trauma of native Americans. In addition, it is also necessary to analyze the mixed race—Riel, created by Irene and Gill in the novel. Her loss of the native American community notion and the alienation from tribal groups led to her national identity crisis. Eventually, with the help of her memory charts, Riel reestablished her connection with tribal groups and tribal cultural traditions, retrieved her native American identity and recovered her colonial trauma.
Keywords
Shadow Tag , Trauma Writing, Colonization Metaphor
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How to cite this paper
Colonization Trauma Writing in Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
How to cite this paper: Chao Wang, Fengshan Liu. (2022) Colonization Trauma Writing in Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 6(3), 475-478.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.09.030