Falling Down, Falling Apart, and Finding Home in Reservation Blues

Authors

  • Terry Easton
  • Castiel Dixon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v3i2.6143

Keywords:

American Indian, Spokane Reservation, fiction, working class, poverty class, historical trauma

Abstract

This essay explores journeys toward and away from ‘home’ in Sherman Alexie’s 1995 novel Reservation Blues. The textual analysis is grounded in Janet Zandy’s (1993) literal and figurative conceptions of home. Situating Alexie’s magical realism within the matrix of poverty-class, race, ethnic, and postcolonial lenses, this essay reveals a range of tragic and hopeful responses to Indigenous colonization on the Spokane Reservation.

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Published

2018-12-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Articles