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"Never Meant To Be": Porcupines and China Dolls as a Fetal-Alcohol Narrative
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 45, Number 2, June 2012
- pp. 95-112
- 10.1353/mos.2012.a479202
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay makes the connection between Robert Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls and social-political issues around Fetal-Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) for Canada's First Nations. It proposes and problematizes a Fetal-Alcohol reading of the novel, using it as a paradigm for the complexities of discussing possible FASD in First Nations communities.