Laughing Boy (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Oliver La Farge
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Plot: Regional romance
- Time of Work: 1915
- Setting: Arizona and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Laughing Boy, Slim Girl, Jesting Squaw’s Son, Two Bows, Red Man
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, 1910’s, West, U.S., Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Native Americans or American Indians, Adultery, Arizona, New Mexico, Southwest
- Locales: Arizona, New Mexico
The Novel
Laughing Boy is both a love story and a narrative of cultural and individual conflict. Set in 1915 on the Navajo Reservation of the Southwest before the first automobile arrived, the novel depicts an unspoiled way of life. An omniscient narrator recounts the action in a straightforward, linear manner, though considerable foreshadowing of events occurs.
Attending a ceremonial dance at Tsé Lani, a Navajo village on the southern edge of the reservation, Laughing Boy meets and falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful young Navajo who has been reared in...
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