The Image of Death in Selected Works of Contemporary American Indian Literature
| Thesis title in Czech: | Obraz smrti ve vybraných dílech současné literatury amerických indiánů |
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| Thesis title in English: | The Image of Death in Selected Works of Contemporary American Indian Literature |
| Key words: | smrt|spiritualita|odcizení|vina přeživších|američtí indiáni|Leslie Marmon Silko|Louise Erdrich|N. Scott Momaday |
| English key words: | death|spirituality|alienation|survivor guilt|American Indians|Leslie Marmon Silko|Louise Erdrich|N. Scott Momaday |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2017/2018 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 03.10.2017 |
| Date of assignment: | 04.10.2017 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 11.10.2017 |
| Date and time of defence: | 04.09.2018 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 03.08.2018 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 04.09.2018 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Klára Kolinská, Dr., Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The thesis will focus on selected works of contemporary literature of American Indians. Its main aim will be to examine how different American Indian authors portray death in their writings. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Louise Erdrich’s Tracks, Janet Campbell Hale’s The Jailing of Cecilia Capture, N. Scott Momaday’s The House Made of Dawn and James Welch’s Winter in the Blood will be discussed, and different female and male perspectives on the issue will be incorporated. The thesis will also try to establish how the historical events from the moment of the first contact with the white settlers influenced the image of death which modern American Indian authors create. |
| References |
| Benedict, Ruth. Kulturní vzorce. Praha: Argo, 1999. Deloria, Vine Jr. The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Erdrich, Louise. The Beet Queen. New York: Bantam Books, 1987. Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. New York: Holt, 1988. Freke, Timothy. Spiritualita severoamerických Indiánů. Praha: Aurora, 2000. Hultkrantz, Ake. Domorodá náboženství Severní Ameriky: síla vizí a plodnosti. Praha: Prostor, 1999. Kerrigan, Michael. The History of Death: Burial Customs and Funeral Rites, from the Ancient World to Modern Times. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2007. Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: New American Library, 1969. Mooney, James. The Ghost Dance. North Dighton: JG Press, 1996. Moore, MariJo, ed. Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003. Murphree, Daniel S., ed. Native America: A State-by-state Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2012. Olson, James S. Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Půtová, Barbora, ed. Identity, Tradition and Revitalization of American Indian Cultures. Prague: Charles University Karolinum Press, 2017. Schopenhauer, Arthur. O smrti. Praha: Adolf Synek, 1931. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. Todorov, Tzvetan. Dobytí Ameriky: problém druhého. Praha: Mladá Fronta, 1996. Trigger, Bruce G., and Washburn, Wilcomb E., ed. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the America Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. |