Revisitando Wounded Knee em Green grass, running water.

Resumo

Este trabalho investiga de que maneira a história tem sido colocada dentro da literatura, no caso específico do texto literário pós-moderno. As complexidades de troca entre história, ficção (estória) e narrativas de vida em Green grass, running water são analisadas a partir de uma série de formulações. O “Massacre de Wounded Knee”, Dakota do Sul, de 1890, e seu desdobramento, a “Batalha em Wounded Knee”, que ocorreu na década de 1970, são os episódios históricos analisados a partir da perspectiva metaficcional, pós-modernista, apreendida no romance acima citado, do escritor indígena canadense Thomas King.

Abstract: This paper investigates how history has been placed within literature, in the specific case of the post-modern literary text. The complexities of the exchange between history, fiction (story) and life narratives are analysed as they appear in Green grass, running water from a series of formulations. The “Massacre at Wounded Knee,” South Dakota, of 1890, and its redoubling, the “Battle at Wounded Knee”, which took place in the 1970s, are the historical episodes analysed from a metafictional, post-modern perspective, as apprehended in the above mentioned novel by the Canadian native writer Thomas King.