American Indian Identity and Indianness in Aboriginal Plays
Dr. Fahmida Manzoor, Dr.Mehwish Ali Khan, Dr. Shumaila Mazhar.
Abstract
The quest of Indian identity is the prime characteristic of the American literature. The period of colonization damaged the Indian identity, the way American Indian children were taken away from their parents with a strategy to make them civilized individuals, sent to boarding school with Richard Henry Pratts slogan of Kill the Indian and save the Man. The American Indian writers strive hard to maintain their image if indianness thus negate the stereotype image of the red Indians. This paper aims to analyze the American Indian identity in American Indian plays. The main focus of this paper is examine the identity construction and deconstruction in the American Indian plays. The American Indian Plays elucidate the Indinness of the American Indian tribes and the dilemma of identity.
Key words: American Indian Plays, Indianess, Identity Conflict, Discourse
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