Winter in the Blood | Bryan Aubrey

Bryan Aubrey

Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on twentieth century literature. In this essay, Aubrey analyzes the importance of Native American consciousness in the novel, as seen in the characters of the narrator and Yellow Calf.

Welch once commented that the reason he did not give his protagonist a name was because "he didn't do anything significant enough to give him a name' (quoted in Mary Jane Lupton's James Welch: A Critical Companion). Insignificant the narrator may in many ways...

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