The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine

The current paper examines the Native American people's identity, especially main female character's cultural identity in short story entitled Search Engine. Sherman Alexie, author of story, is a writer who harnesses Indian as one topics. presented character, Corliss, shows challenges stereotypes girls. For that reason, aims at exploring new woman’s represented study applies feminist literary criticism enables writers to deeply explore issue woman's among native people. image which she can challenge traditional women. Corliss highly literate woman, with lot reading on English works, and has concern her Indian-ness, often incommensurable big family’s views. character an girl evidenced excellent literacy attitude toward White She consciousness seeing men women their relation