{"title":"The Hermeneutics of Starvation: Alienation, Reading, and Fish in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood","authors":"Lloyd Alimboyao Sy","doi":"10.1353/ail.2023.a908062","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This essay proposes that James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974) considers what it might mean to perform interpretation in decrepit situations. To do this it traces various forms of lack in the novel and their conjunction with practices of reading or comprehension, but it especially focuses on the novel’s depiction of scarcity with regards to an important part of the Blackfeet/Gros Ventre diet: fish. The essay argues that the novel’s dearth of fish— among other destitute conditions—forces characters to interpret their situations through what I call the “hermeneutics of starvation.” I suggest that this form of reading, which I base on the statements of the book’s elder Yellow Calf, could characterize the literature of the Native American Renaissance more generally.","PeriodicalId":53988,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Indian Literatures","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in American Indian Literatures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ail.2023.a908062","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This essay proposes that James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974) considers what it might mean to perform interpretation in decrepit situations. To do this it traces various forms of lack in the novel and their conjunction with practices of reading or comprehension, but it especially focuses on the novel’s depiction of scarcity with regards to an important part of the Blackfeet/Gros Ventre diet: fish. The essay argues that the novel’s dearth of fish— among other destitute conditions—forces characters to interpret their situations through what I call the “hermeneutics of starvation.” I suggest that this form of reading, which I base on the statements of the book’s elder Yellow Calf, could characterize the literature of the Native American Renaissance more generally.
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Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL) is the only journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literatures. With a wide scope of scholars and creative contributors, this journal is on the cutting edge of activity in the field. SAIL invites the submission of scholarly, critical pedagogical, and theoretical manuscripts focused on any aspect of American Indian literatures as well as the submission of poetry and short fiction, bibliographical essays, review essays, and interviews. SAIL defines "literatures" broadly to include all written, spoken, and visual texts created by Native peoples.
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