셔만 알렉시의 『파트타임 인디언의정말로 진실한 일기』: 패러디로서 유머

Abstract

This paper aims to examine humor as a parody in Sherman Alexie's An Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian. Pain continued to generate from the era of drawing Indian Reservations spreads out throughout Diary and history of American Indian. For Alexie, pain is the same word with the identity of Indian and is expressed in alcoholism, drug abuse, casino, and violence in his works. Generally, Indian nationalist writers try to regain the tradition in songs, stories and culture of Indian. They reprehend Alexie for giving up Indian tradition. But for Alexie, their writings depicted the image of Indian is the doings to sell Indian culture to White. Instead, he explores the various aspects of traditional Indian and transnational Indian. The goal of his writing is to ultimately explore the possibilities of co-existing Indian and White. In order to do this, he uses humor as a means of co-existing both of Indian and White and subverting the Indian image fixated by the dominant culture and some of Indian writers. Alexie's humor acts, thus, as a parody to refer to the rupture or void between Indian and White.