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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Definition of Indigenous Identity
3. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
3.1 A “Collective Self” in Things Fall Apart
3.1.1 History and Time
3.1.2 Oral Tradition and Language
3.1.3 Rituals: the Circle
3.2 The Fixed Individual versus the Adapting Community
3.3 Diaspora Identities
3.3.1 The Notion of Change
3.3.2 Silencing: Orality into Literacy
3.3.3 Relocation
3.3.4 Unwriting Eurocentrism
3.3.5 Hybridity
4. The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
4.1 “Return to History” in The Whale Rider
4.1.1 Oral Tradition and Language
4.1.2 Myth
4.1.3 Rituals: the Spiral
4.2 The Hybrid Individual versus the Collective Past
4.3 Rewriting Indigenous Identity
4.3.1 Influences of Western Culture and Globalization
4.3.2 Racism
4.3.3 Writing Motion
5. Comparison: The Shattered Circle vs. the Spiraling Journey
6. Conclusion
7. Works Cited
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- Annemarie Pabel (Author), 2011, Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/184244
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