Open AccessAmerican Indian Identity in The Heirs of Columbus
Author(s) -
Mehwish Ali Khan,
Fahmida Manzoor,
Shumaila Mazhar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global regional review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7030
pISSN - 2616-955X
DOI - 10.31703/grr.2020(v-iii).29
Subject(s) - colonialism , stereotype (uml) , hegemony , ideology , identity (music) , narrative , power (physics) , history , gender studies , rewriting , representation (politics) , unconscious mind , sociology , literature , aesthetics , law , art , psychology , political science , psychoanalysis , social psychology , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , computer science , programming language
The present study aims to explore the identity construction in The Heirs of Columbus. The Heirs of Columbus exhibits the chronic representations of primitive inferior Indian constructed by the Euro Americans through the exercise of colonialism. These representations have been spread on both conscious and unconscious levels to maintain power and colonial hegemony. Gerald Vizenor deconstructs the stereotype Indian through his writings hence refute the eurocentric notion of stereotype native. He unveils the Eurocentric ideology by rewriting history in a subversive ironical way, records the construction of Indian thus reconstructs him in his narration.