Dwelling, Traveling, and Formation of Self: Transborder Foray in Sherman Alexie''s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

• Main Authors: Chi-ling Hsu, 許之齡
• Other Authors: Chi-szu Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24855124059089631389

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 英文學系碩士班 === 100 === The thesis aims to examine Sherman Alexie''s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian from the perspective of cultural geography. I discuss the interrelation among dwelling experience, traveling experience and the formation of self. In Chapter One, “Place and Roots/Routes of Identity: Dwelling Experience in Transborder Foray,” I explore the development of Arnold''s dwelling experience and its related sense of belonging. I analyze the protagonist’s sense of belonging to significant places, and contrast the tribal people''s static sense of place and Arnold Spirit''s progressive sense of place. In Chapter Two, “Space and Mobility: Traveling Experience in Transborder Foray,” I investigate the possibility of social growth by analyzing Arnold''s traveling experience and its related social space. Arnold shows his increasing expansion of social space in Reardan. In Chapter Three, “Landscape and Hybridity: The Formation of Self in Transborder Foray,” I discuss the development of value system by elaborating how the formation of self is related to the representation of landscape and to two spatial conception of identity—node and container.