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of its formulation. The fluctuation between more social identities and ethnic
choice are the most exciting aspects of these characters, and their story also
reflects the author’s experiences of being born mixed blood. In the context
of the challenge to the binaries of prototypical civilized versus barbarous
savage and medicine versus genocide dichotomies, the ethnical paradigm of
the novel allows the reader to reformulate her or his reading of history and
race relations. The problems of ethnic pride, shame and stigma have been
eliminated in various ways, but most successfully through reconnecting with
one’s Indigenous heritage, which seems to be a general pattern which applies
both to the authors of this social background and their protagonists as well.
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