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with an unequivocal essence of permeating presence: Fleur is metaphor and “metáfora.” Langue beyond Langue. Langue beyond light. Fleur as Poetry and “Poesía,” is a dweller1 of immanence: hers is a potent world that inhabits the expanse of poetic beauty beyond boundaries, beyond margins, beyond trace.
Rita Ferrari, in “Where the Maps Stopped” examines “the problem of representation in Erdrich’s novel... through actual and metaphorical borders... in relation between inside and outside” (Ferrari 5). By focusing on binaries of self and the other, body and world, vision and blindness, Ferrari fails to address Fleur as a liminal being beyond representation and beyond boundaries. Rather, Ferrari perceives Fleur as an intermediary “she (Fleur) is the boundary and that which is beyond the boundary” (Ferrarri 14) and further capitulates that Fleur’s “track-less-ness” suggests not only her ‘disappearance’ but that of the Anishinabe as well” (Ferrari 15). Although Ferrari’s focuses on the “linguistic subtlety” of representation of boundaries as “sites of constant interplay” (Ferrari 3), I will contend that Fleur is as “trackless” as Nanapush and Pauline are “tracked:” Fleur without language cascades through our fingers like fresh falling meanings through a page.
Likewise, by focusing on Fleur’s “tongue-less-ness” as representation of her “track-less-ness,” in counter-position to Sheila Hughes’ argument in Tongue-Tied that “tongues can tie us to each other in
1 Heidegger, Martin. Poetry Language and Thought. Trans. A. Hofstader. New York:Harper & Row Publishers, 1971. 211-227.
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