Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies -
Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam
(Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: How Race Is
Lived in America, 14 entries in the bibliography, language:
English, abstract: Introduction The novel House Made of Dawn, first
published in 1968, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. With the
incorporation of Native materials into the Anglo-American novel
Momaday introduced the Native American Renaissance at the end of
the 1960s. And, indeed, as one of the first contemporary Native
American writers Momaday employs on the one hand traditional oral
tales, fragments of poetry and historical documents. On the other
hand House Made of Dawn illustrates his "Western" fascination with
structure, a literary device almost absent in oral storytelling or
traditional Native American literature. The novel makes use of
multiple points of view, stream-of-consciousness techniques, sudden
changes of time and chronology, which are primarily achieved by
flashbacks and flashforwards. Momaday's delight in imagery,
especially of nature, reflect his study of Romantics' and
Symbolists' work. The book's content, as well as that of other
works by the author, is a reflection of Momaday's personal identity
and the various cultural traditions that shaped it. The following
literary analysis will therefore focus on the embedding of aspects
of Momaday's identity and try to explain some of the cultural
elements interwoven in the story. As the author repeatedly employs
autobiographical materials, a short representation of his past
seems indispensable. Due to the designated size of this paper, a
detailed analysis of all interesting and noteworthy aspects seems
impossible. Also, with regard to the interrelatedness of form and
content, there won't be subdivisions separated by headlines within
the analysis.
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