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Imagining indigenous sovereignty, II (the ‘homing plot’, for example): John Gamber, ‘In the Master’s Maison: Mobile Indigeneity in The Heartsong of Charging Elk and Blue Ravens’, Transmotion, 2, 1-2, 2016

04Dec16

Excerpt: Those of us who work in Native American literature (and I imagine this includes anyone inclined to peruse this essay) are perfectly familiar with William Bevis’s formulation of the homing plot. Within such narratives, a lost young Native protagonist ventures out into the world, becomes psychically and physically wounded, and returns home to heal.


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