The Representation of Blackness in Reservation Blues

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It is not too much to say that Sherman Alexie (1966-) is one of the most gifted Native American writers at present. Surprisingly, he appears before us in a variety of creative roles: a moviemaker^l, a poet, and a novelist. Alexie's concern is to depict the real life of contemporary Native Americans by making the best possible use of his extraordinary imagination and creativity. Two motives have combined to make me focus on his first novel, Reservation Blues (1995). First, I want to inquire into the issue of the representation of blackness; secondly, I would like to put this literary piece into the context of globalization and reinterpret the overall problems raised by this fiction. Pursuing these two questions in this novel. I expect to reach the core of the issue of ethnoscapes^2 in the era of globalization.