Bearable with Humor, Pain in Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

Abstract

For the time being Native Americans still doubt and question theirstatus amid the American nation. The consciousness of being marginaland subjugated appears clearly in their literature. Within the risingvoices that echo widely against repression and injustice, they have hadtheir voice, a voice that reflects historical agony, cultural deprivation,and political stings. Moreover, what distinguishes their voices is theamount of mutilation and loss that turns into humor and sarcasm. Thisvoice ceaselessly tries to bring back a fragmented identity from ashes.Sherman Alexie, a poet, novelist, short story writer, filmmaker,essayist, and comedian, is one of the best to adopt the role of fightingfor his people to reclaim their status. His people and their dignified andexcruciating survival inform much of his multi-genre works and unifyhis style. Frequently, the black humor technique pops up in his poems