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Dwellings By Linda Hogan Sparknotes

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Essay plan:
• Idea: research paper with an argumentative topic.
• Topics of development: o Essay question: Could thoroughly analysing a selection of Linda Hogan's stories from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World through the lens of the emerging eco-spiritual imaginary allow for a better understanding of the Native American diaspora? o Thesis statement: This essay will argue that by analysing Linda Hogan's Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World as an eco-spiritual work, a framework for a more extensive investigation of the native diasporic consciousness may be established. o Brief outline:
1. Introduction;

2. Body (evidential support):

2.1. Background information: Native Diaspora narratives are told by the people …show more content…

How does Linda Hogan's approach to Native American diaspora literature incorporate eco-spirituality? This literary movement is consistent with core aspects of Native American culture, such as folktales, myths, and oral histories.

2.3. Textual analysis: "Walking" as a mechanism for introspection, as having religious connotations (pilgrimage), and as a symbol of many native diasporic movements. Many Native Americans remained in the United States but lost their ancestral lands to European colonialism. Due to the European settlers' push for a monoculture, Native American communities were forced to relocate, rename, merge, scatter, and, in some cases, be destroyed.

2.4. The divide between Native American identity and "nature," or the living world, is growing. Both environmental philosophy and Native American communities address the issue of re-establishing humanity's relationship to nature. Have Indigenous knowledge systems (the language of the natural world) been lost to time because of selfish human behaviour? To answer this, it is crucial to examine the shortcomings of Indian reservations as cultural hubs for …show more content…

The eco-spiritual imaginary is thus an ecological aesthetic shared by contemporary ethnic writers in the United States of America whose novels express a spiritual reverence for the earth and a desire for decolonisation, i.e., stories that challenge the white settler colonial mythologies of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism. Many indigenous and pre-colonial cultures share elements that were disrupted by the Euro-centric nature/culture dichotomy, regarded as being the driving force behind all environmental devastation. Hence, by expressing a common biological origin and a sacredness of all life that transcends ethnic differences while remaining rooted locally, this text emphasises a shared concern for the ecological interconnection between all living beings. The terminology shifts from "nature" as an object for human use to “environment” as a system of reciprocity between one subjectivity and

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