Vol.2, No 9, 2002 pp. 335 - 340
UDC 820(71).09-31

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METANARRATIVES AND TEXTUAL IRONIES
IN ROBERT KROETSCH'S GONE INDIAN
Tanja Cvetković
Faculty of Philosophy, Niš, YU 

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The narrative structure of Robert Kroetsch's novel Gone Indian is multi-layered and abounds in the use of mythological fragments with special reference to the myths and stories of the Canadian past and present. Robert Kroetsch's use of myth in his novels, as well as in the novel Gone Indian, is exposed to parody and irony for he believes that familiar myths and stories must be "deconstructed", "uninvented" and "unnamed" (all his favored terms) as fictions.

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META-PRIČE I TEKSTUALNE IRONIJE U INDIJANCU ROBERTA KROČA Rad se bavi proučavanjem višeslojne narativne strukture romana Indijanac Roberta Kroča. Površinska priča romana nosi u sebi najmanje tri podteksta koji se odnose na Tarnerovo shvatanje pojma Američke granice, na priču o Sivoj Sovi i mural Džeka Šedbolta koji se nalazi na aero-dromu u Edmontonu. Meta-priče, pomoću Kročovog arheloškog metoda, koji nesumnjivo vodi poreklo od Fukoovog shvatanja pojma arhelogije, narušavaju autentičnost teksta romana, ali, uz pomoć čitaočeve imaginacije, učestvuju u izgradnji jedinstvene interpretacije romana.