publication . Article . 2005

L’écriture rouge de Sherman Alexie : l’exemple de "The Sin Eaters"

Name: L’écriture rouge de Sherman Alexie : l’exemple de "The Sin Eaters"
Creator: Sabatier, Diane

Sabatier, Diane;

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Published: 01 Sep 2005

Publisher: Presses universitaires d'Angers

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If the bodies of Native American individuals seem perpetually tormented and exploited, they constitute means of rebellion when they are transformed into the testimony of a witness – into the body of work of the writer. One can read Sherman Alexie’s collection of short-stories, The Toughest Indian In The World (2001), as scattered bodies regaining shape on paper and forces through his angry red ink. The short-story “The Sin Eaters” constitutes its central nerve with a macabre allegory which links the holocaust to the genocide of the Native American tribes. This apocalyptic tale depicts, in an undetermined moment in time, the removal of Native Americans and their ...

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