scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN TENTANG MULTIKULTURALISME DALAM CERITA PENDEK KARYA PENULIS PRIBUMI AMERIKA [EDUCATING ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM USING A SHORT STORY BY A NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHOR]

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Lestari Manggong
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Sherman Alexie ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
American Author ◽  
Multicultural Identities

<p><span>This paper discusses the contribution that reading a short story written by Native American author Sherman Alexie makes in the multicultural education. The story discussed is “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” which displays cultural conflicts between Native Americans and Americans within the two main characters. In the discussion, the way such cultural conflicts are presented will be highlighted in terms of representing similar situations which can be reflected by students as individuals with multicultural identities. Cultural perceptions on the story will be discussed using the concept of multiculturalism as proposed by Menand (1995) and Native American literature by Parker (2004). Students’ perceptions on multiculturalism shown in this paper are taken from the students’ papers discussing multiculturalism, which are a required final assignment for the FSIP course.  This paper will then have its proposed final conclusion that in compromising multicultural identities, a strategy of tug and let loose is needed.</span></p><p><span><strong>BAHASA INDONESIA ABSTRAK: </strong>Makalah ini membahas tentang kontribusi pembacaan cerita pendek (cerpen) karya penulis pribumi Amerika, Sherman Alexie, dalam pendidikan tentang multikulturalisme bagi mahasiswa di Program Studi Sastra Inggris Universitas Padjadjaran dalam Mata Kuliah Further Studies in Prose (FSIP). Cerpen yang dibahas berjudul “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” yang di dalamnya terdapat konflik kultural antara Pribumi Amerika dan Amerika dalam diri dua karakter utamanya. Dalam pembahasan akan diperlihatkan bagaimana konflik kultural tersebut merepresentasi situasi sejenis yang dapat direfleksikan oleh mahasiswa, sebagai individu yang memiliki identitas kultural yang beragam. Pandangan-pandangan kultural yang beragam dalam cerpennya akan dibahas menggunakan konsep multikulturalisme Menand (1995) dan kesusastraan pribumi Amerika oleh Parker (2004). Pandangan-pandangan mahasiswa tentang multikulturalisme yang disampaikan dalam makalah ini bersumber dari makalah mahasiswa, yang merupakan tugas akhir untuk Mata Kuliah FSIP, yang membahas cerpen tersebut. Pembahasan pada makalah ini kemudian akan mengerucut pada suatu pandangan bahwa pada akhirnya diperlukan strategi tarik-ulur dalam upaya mengompromikan keragaman identitas kultural.<br /></span></p>

scholarly journals Contestation of Discourse on Alcoholism among Native Americans in Joy Harjo’s The Reckoning (2002)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Joy Harjo ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Society

This study aims at revealing how the discursive practices and the discourse on alcoholism in the Native Americans is produced and contested in a short story entitled The Reckoning by Joy Harjo. The problem in this study is approached by Foucauldian concept of discourse production procedure. The method applied here is the Foucauldian discourse analysis by examining the problem through the process of formation including external and internal exclusion. Central to the analysis is that alcoholism is produced as taboo through the mother character which limits the general understanding about alcoholism; hence this discourse is possible to produce by the subject whose credentials can validate the truth. This discourse is also affirmed by the contextual prohibition which authoritatively can state the truth about alcoholism. This is further contested in the current society of how being an alcoholic would be considered as a non-native American way of life. The result indicates that alcoholism among Native American society becomes the discourse within which constraints produce considerable barriers to expose or address to this topic

The Plight of Contemporary Native Americans in Love Medicine

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1665
Author(s):  
Ting Bo
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Louise Erdrich ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Native American Literature ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Deep Roots

Louise Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the contemporary Native American literature. Her first novel Love Medicine represents the lives of Chippewa Indians on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. This paper intends to give a detailed analysis of the living plight of Native Americans in Love Medicine from three perspectives and explores the deep roots of their embarrassment. Also, the paper points out the significance of the existence and preservation of the unique Indian culture under the global multi-cultural background and gives some strategies for the survival of Native Americans.

scholarly journals The Tastes from Portugal: Food as Remembrance in Portuguese American Literature

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-152
Author(s):  
Reinaldo Silva
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Ethnic Food ◽  
Piazza Tales

Contemporary Portuguese American literature written by Thomas Braga (1943-), Frank Gaspar (1946-), and Katherine Vaz (1955-) share a profusion of topics - with ethnic food being, perhaps, the most representative one. What these writers have in common is that their roots can be traced to Portugal's Atlantic islands - the Azores - and not to continental Portugal. They are native Americans and write in English, though their characters and themes are Portuguese American. Some of them lived close to the former New England whaling and fishing centers of New Bedford and Nantucket, which Herman Melville has immortalized in Moby-Dick and in his short story, “The 'Gees,” in The Piazza Tales. These seaports were renowned worldwide and eventually attracted Azorean harpooners. The Azorean background of Thomas Braga and Frank Gaspar helps us to understand why fish and seafood feature so extensively in their writings instead of dishes containing meat as is the case in the fiction of Katherine Vaz.

scholarly journals Indigeneity and Early American Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Newman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Early American Literature ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Early American ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Relationship

Indigeneity is the abstract noun form of “indigenous,” defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “Born or produced naturally in a land or region”; in conventional usage, it refers primarily to “aboriginal inhabitants or natural products.” Indigeneity has a conceptually complex relationship to American literary history before 1830, insofar as, for most of the history of the field, “early American literature” has predominately referred to works written in European languages, scripts, and genres, produced by peoples of European origin and their descendants. Within this framework, until Native Americans began adopting and adapting these languages, scripts, and genres for their own use, there were no literary works that might be simultaneously characterized as “indigenous” and “early American.” Four conceptualizations of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature provide a basis for this history and its historiography. Three of these pertain to cultural works produced at least in part by Native Americans: these are (1) written representations of Native American spoken performances, or “oral literature”; (2) writings that register various degrees of participation in literacy practices by Native American converts to Christianity; and (3) cultural works that employ non-alphabetic indigenous sign-systems, or “indigenous literacies.” These formulations variously challenge conventional ideas about literature and related terms such as authorship and writing; in the case of the Christian Indians, they can also challenge notions of indigeneity. A fourth conceptualization of the relationship between indigeneity and early American literature is premised on narrow definitions of these seemingly antithetical terms: it pertains to the aesthetic project of some settler-colonial authors who hoped to connect their prose and verse works to the domestic landscape, to assert their cultural independence from England, and to enact the replacement of Native American cultural traditions with their own.

New Indians and Indigenous Archives

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Washburn
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
American Indian Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Indigenous Archives ◽  
Early Songs

Native americans have long been the missing subjects of american literature, either excised from narratives of nation through colonial erasure or limited to the discourse of the “vanishing Indian.” Such marginalization is no longer the case, or at least not to the same extent, particularly for literary studies of national, transnational, and hemispheric constructions of race and citizenship. As critics from Vine Deloria to Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Craig Womack have demonstrated, a wide range of indigenous practices and forms of knowledge must be reclaimed within academic forms of inquiry, representation, and circulation. One strategy for Native American literary studies has been to expand notions of text to include winter counts, wampum, and other forms of material culture. Even with a narrower definition of text, however, the current archive of American Indian literature encompasses such diverse works as early songs and oratory, nineteenth-century poems in Ojibwe and English by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, a range of boarding school narratives, contemporary graphic novels, and the amplified (digital) poetry of Brandy Nalani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez.

Native American sports mascots activate negative stereotypes about contemporary Native Americans

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Focella ◽  
Jessica Whitehead ◽  
Jeff Stone ◽  
Stephanie Fryberg ◽  
Rebecca Covarrubias
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Negative Stereotypes

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

Indian Genocide – A Study Through The Works of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Poonam Chourey
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
Native People ◽  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Purpose Of Business ◽  
Wounded Knee ◽  
Shed Light

The research expounded the turmoil, uproar, anguish, pain, and agony faced by native Indians and Native Americans in the South Dakota region.  To explain the grief, pain and lamentation, this research studies the works of Elizabeth Cook-Lyn.  She laments for the people who died and also survived in the Wounded Knee Massacre.  The people at that time went through huge exploitation and tolerated the cruelty of American Federal government. This research brings out the unchangeable scenario of the Native Americans and Native Indians.  Mr. Padmanaban shed light on the works of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn who was activist.  Mr. Padmanaban is very influenced with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn’s thoughts and works. She hails from Sioux Community, a Native American.  She was an outstanding and exceptional scholar.  She experienced the agony and pain faced by the native people.  The researcher, Mr. Padmanaban is concerned the sufferings, agony, pain faced by the South Dakota people at that time.  The researcher also is acknowledging the Indian freedom fighters who got India independence after over 200 years of sufferings.  The foreign nationals entered our country with the sole purpose of business.  Slowly and steadily the took over the reign of the country and ruled us for years, made all of us suffer a lot.

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