... spheres of an average American life. Their characters portray the lack of understanding present in the American society for the Native Americans and the anger prevalent amongst the culture. Both authors have awakened the literary world on the existence of a culture that had always been there for possibly thousands of years, but only through an occasional perspective from an anthropologist and ... or a historian. Erdrich in The Red Convertible and Alexie in This is What it Means to Say Phoenix Arizona each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American pop...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie's debiut The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven gives its readers an insight into the contemporary Native American life. The book contains 22 stories revolving around events on and off the Spokane Indian reservation in the state of Washington. The collection does not seem to have ... , Alexie manages to keep us interested. I will not be tempted to put Alexie's book into the literary context by comparing it with works by Louise Erdrich and other well known authors from "The ethnic shelf", as I am not ...

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