<b>Unwriting manifest borders: on culture and nature in L eslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Linda Hogan</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v28i1.177

  • Roland Gerhard Mike Walter UFPE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v28i1.177

Abstract

The themes of transculturation, multiculturalism and border -making are discussed in Gardens in the Dune, The Heartsong of Charging Elk and Solar Storms and Power respectively by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Linda Hogan, three Native American authors. The first two authors deal with a two -way transcultural and interchange procedures in community building. Intercultural activities involve not only synthesis but also rupture and symbiosis. The two novels by Hogan, on the other han d, give importance to the construction of communities through connections between the human and the natural world which, in fact, are one. In other words, the novels deconstruct the border between nature and nurture. An integrated vision of reality implode s divisions and impairs the future destruction of earth.

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Author Biography

Roland Gerhard Mike Walter, UFPE
É professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e Lingüística da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Doutor em Literatura Comparada pela Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Alemanha (1992), realizou pesquisas de pós-doutorado na University of California, Santa Cruz (2000) com bolsa de estudos concedida pela CAPES e obteve em 2006 bolsa de estudos do Governo Canadense. Roland Walter é autor de dois livros Magical Realism in Contemporary Chicano Fiction (Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1993) e Narrative Identities: (Inter)Cultural In-Betweenness in the Americas (New York/Frankfurt/Bern: Peter Lang, 2003) e publicou numerosos artigos e capítulos de livro sobre diversos aspectos e temáticas da literatura e teoria (Estudos Culturais e Pós-Coloniais) interamericana no Brasil, na Argentina, em Cuba, no Canadá, nos Estados Unidos, na Alemanha e na Holanda. Além de ser parecerista e fazer parte do conselho editorial de várias revistas científicas nacionais, Roland Walter foi Editor Associado da revista MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, University of Connecticut, USA) de 1997 até 2006 e é Pesquisador Associado do Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Amériques (GIRA), Montréal. Foi convidado como Professor Visitante pela Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, Alemanha entre abril e setembro de 2004 e atualmente coordena o Núcleo de Estudos Canadenses da UFPE Currículo Lattes
Published
2007-11-12
How to Cite
Walter, R. G. M. (2007). <b>Unwriting manifest borders: on culture and nature in L eslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Linda Hogan</b&gt; - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v28i1.177. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 28(1), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v28i1.177
Issue
Vol 28 No 1 (2006)
Section
Literature

 

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