Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks
The present study aims to revisit Native American woman's experience of out of placeness due to her pregnancy in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. The study argues that the protagonist experiences spatial identity crisis within the socio-spatial paradigms. The present work reread the novel through the theoretical formulations of Tim Cresswell and Iris Marian Young. The notion of out of placeness is constituted upon the premise that an individual's failure to develop belongingness to a particular space and place is caused by multiple factors. Pregnancy, as Young asserts, destabilizes an individual's idea of a 'subject'. With these theoretical underpinnings, that study maintains that the protagonist of the novel experiences out of placeness and develops a fractured spatial identity in the novel.
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Erdrich, Native American Body, Out of Placeness, Place, Pregnancy, Space
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(1) Fasih ur Rehman
Lecturer in English, Khushal Khan Khattak University Karak, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Gohar Munir Mukhi
MS in English, Department of English, The National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Qamar Sumaira
Lecturer in English, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Rehman, F. u., Mukhi, G. M., & Sumaira, Q. (2021). Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks. Global Regional Review, VI(I), 223-229. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).24
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CHICAGO : Rehman, Fasih ur, Gohar Munir Mukhi, and Qamar Sumaira. 2021. "Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks." Global Regional Review, VI (I): 223-229 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).24
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HARVARD : REHMAN, F. U., MUKHI, G. M. & SUMAIRA, Q. 2021. Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks. Global Regional Review, VI, 223-229.
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MHRA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Gohar Munir Mukhi, and Qamar Sumaira. 2021. "Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks." Global Regional Review, VI: 223-229
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MLA : Rehman, Fasih ur, Gohar Munir Mukhi, and Qamar Sumaira. "Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks." Global Regional Review, VI.I (2021): 223-229 Print.
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OXFORD : Rehman, Fasih ur, Mukhi, Gohar Munir, and Sumaira, Qamar (2021), "Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks", Global Regional Review, VI (I), 223-229
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TURABIAN : Rehman, Fasih ur, Gohar Munir Mukhi, and Qamar Sumaira. "Louise Erdrich's Portrayal of Spatial Predicament of Pregnant Bodies in Tracks." Global Regional Review VI, no. I (2021): 223-229. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).24