Sherman Alexie's How To Write The Great American Indian Novel

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In the poem How to Write the Great American Indian Novel, Sherman Alexie writes about the necessities when writing an “American Indian” novel. The poem specifically states everything the novel is supposed to have, and how the characters are supposed to look (with few exceptions). The irony with this poem is the more American than Indian vision of the novel. As well as worshipping white culture and caucasian skin or ‘white people’ instead of the Native side of the ‘Indian American.’
Alexie’s poem has a very real theme to it. It is well known that Natives were robbed of their home by Europeans then raped and almost wiped out out the Native’s cultures. This poem depicts what happened but in a more subliminal matter. Alexie then adds, “The hero

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