Mary Oliver - Representation of the American Indians

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English

 

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Frederick P

 

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December 3, 2012

 

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University

 

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A

 

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The persona of the poem Learning about the Indians is highly critical of the ways in which the anthropocentric cultural practises of the Western world have become dominant and therefore internalised by so many. This is illustrated when Oliver describes how Mr White, a man of Indian decent, performs an Indian cultural act to school children...
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This was once a sacred ritual, which now has become an act to be further degraded and demeaned by Western society. ‘Our teachers called it Extracurricular/ We called it fun’. Oliver’s persona in these lines emphasises how the American Indians’ culture has been devalued and constructed as inferior by Western ideologies...
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