Hybrid MythologiesIdentity and Heritage in the Poetry of Louise Erdrich

  1. María Porras Sánchez 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Journal:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
  1. Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro (ed. lit.)

ISSN: 0211-5913

Year of publication: 2019

Issue Title: Canadian Fictions of Globality

Issue: 78

Pages: 157-171

Type: Article

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Abstract

This article analyzes the presence of aboriginal and classical myths in the poetry of Louise Erdrich, tokens of her double cultural heritage –Native American and German-American– and examples of her perception of identity. The aim of this article is to research the symbolic connotations attached to Western and aboriginal myths, and to study Erdrich’s appropriation of such stories. By doing so, she creates a hybrid mythology that contrasts with a contemporary background. Her poetry is an exercise of self-ethnography that empowers her hybrid heritage instead of relying in an artificial reconstruction of an ideal or mythological past, while denouncing the environmental and psychological consequences of colonization.

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