RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Faulkner’s Renewal of the Figure of the Grizzly Bear in the American West: From Ancestor to Political Symbol
T2 La renovación de Faulkner de la figura del oso pardo en el Oeste Americano: de ancestro a símbolo político
A1 Jiménez-Pérez, Irati
K1 Human-Animal Relationships
K1 Hunting
K1 American West
K1 Bear Imaginary
K1 Native American Folklore
AB The role of the grizzly bear in many Native American tribes has had a tremendous cultural,spiritual and ecological significance, which was objected by the colonisers’ anthropocentricconception of wildlife as an instrumental value to humans. Literature has been one of themain sources to find traces of this Native American conception of the grizzly bear as deityas well as the colonists’ perspective of the nonhuman animal as threat to be tamed. In thisarticle, I will analyse some folk tales and William Faulkner’s “The Bear” (1942) in order todemonstrate the existence of this conception of the grizzly bear in the American West, aswell as the importance of literature for its perpetuation.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37132
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37132
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 24-nov-2024