Shape-shifting: fluctuating patterns of Indian identity in Sherman Alexie's fiction James Patrick Webb Iowa State University

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SHERMAN ALEXIE is a poet, novelist, and filmmaker who is known for his witty and open-minded survey of modern native American life. As Spokane / Coda Lane Indian, Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up in the Spokane Indian Settlement in Wellpinit, Washington State. He spent two years at Gonzaga University before moving to Washington State University in Pullman. In the same year that graduated in 1991, Alexie published a book of money, this collection of poet calls him "one of the most important lyrics of our time" to give New York Times book reviews I guided it. Since that time, Alexei has published more poems, including I Would Steal Horses (1993) and One Stick Song (2000), Prophecy Blues (1995) and Indian Killer (1996), and the Story Collection "Lonely". Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), "The Harshest Indians in the World" (2000), "Ten Big Indians" (2003)

The past few decades have been filled with new American Indian poetry and novels. Many American Indian writers such as Sherman Alexei and Louis Erdrich have strongly expressed their booking experience and have explored it in a deeply humorous way. More writers have appeared every year, and the art of storytelling in the American Indian seems to have been well preserved in the genre of new literature. At the end of the 20th century, the American Indian community worked hard to maintain the sovereignty of communities, languages ​​and tribes.

In Sherman Alexie's novel, I do not feel uneasy about the nature of reality. His role is mainly American Indians, busy with survival, there is not much time to think about the light problem of life. Spokane - Cordo Alan Indian Alexo is paying a strict, affectionate, moving, extremely careful attention to create short stories and unpleasant salty novels ("Book of Blues") This gift Portrait - daily life of the Spokane Preserve in Washington State. "Indians are primarily for survival." He greatly expanded his scope with his new novel "Indian Killer" in Seattle. After exploring the way Indians are destroyed or overcome by the negligence and attack of the Great Society, he turned his attention to the Indian experience he or she has left (or came out).