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Type: Article

Deconstructing master narratives through cognitive games in Hanay Geiogamah’s Body Indian, Foghorn, and 49

Journal: Neohelicon (3244652)Year: 2021Volume: Issue: 2Pages: 695 - 718
Jannessari Ladani Z.aSaei Dibavar S.
DOI:10.1007/s11059-021-00602-0Language: English

Abstract

We discuss Geiogamah’s dramatic depiction of the evolving train of thought within the indigenous society through a joined study of his Body Indian, Foghorn, and 49—three full-length, independent works. Application of cognitive poetics strategies highlights the potential within these plays to enlighten the immediate past and contemporary indigenous society and illustrates how storytelling functions as a resuscitating tool within indigenous communities. If read together as a trilogy, these plays reveal Geiogamah’s artistic maneuvers: having depicted the historical trauma which has afflicted the contemporary indigenous society through the textual actual world of Body Indian, he exposes the long-established ideologies at work for Indigenous peoples’ subjugation through spatio-temporal re-locations and ‘conceptual blends’ in Foghorn and, finally, puts forward a sketch of the ideal indigenous possible world in 49. © 2021, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.


Author Keywords

49BlendingFoghornGeiogamah’s Body IndianPossible worldsSpatio-temporal relocation