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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMANS PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE OF SPACE AND PLACE IN ERDRICHS TRACKS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).30      10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).30      Published : Mar 1

Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks

Abstract

    This study discusses Native American woman's experience of existential outsideness, which is caused by the Euro-American legislative act as represented by Louise Erdrich in her novel Tracks. This research analyzes the role of the Dawes Act of 1887 in triggering the experience of existential outsideness among the Native Americans in general and Native American women in particular. Through Edward Casey Ralph's phenomenological perspective on the notion of spatiality, the study reinterprets the representation of space and place in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. The study offers a spatial reading of a Native American woman's life to explicate how she confronts the issues related to the confiscation of her ancestral lands that trigger her experience of existential outsideness to her land. The study concludes that Euro-American policies of acculturation and assimilation thwarted spatioexistential experiences of Native American women.

    Dawes Act of 1887, Louise Erdrich, Native American Woman, Space and Place, Spatiality

    (1) Fasih ur Rehman
    Lecturer, Department of English, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Sahar Javaid
    Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Quratulain Mumtaz
    Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Rehman, F. u., Javaid, S., & Mumtaz, Q. (2021). Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks. Global Social Sciences Review, VI(I), 298-305. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).30

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Rehman, Fasih ur, Sahar Javaid, and Quratulain Mumtaz. 2021. "Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review, VI (I): 298-305 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).30

HARVARD

    HARVARD : REHMAN, F. U., JAVAID, S. & MUMTAZ, Q. 2021. Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks. Global Social Sciences Review, VI, 298-305.

MHRA

    MHRA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Sahar Javaid, and Quratulain Mumtaz. 2021. "Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review, VI: 298-305

MLA

    MLA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Sahar Javaid, and Quratulain Mumtaz. "Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review, VI.I (2021): 298-305 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Rehman, Fasih ur, Javaid, Sahar, and Mumtaz, Quratulain (2021), "Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks", Global Social Sciences Review, VI (I), 298-305

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Rehman, Fasih ur, Sahar Javaid, and Quratulain Mumtaz. "Native American Woman's Phenomenological Experience of Space and Place in Erdrich's Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. I (2021): 298-305. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).30