American literary texts. The research deals with the ways of actualizing one of the most powerful concepts of the modern world – that of ethnicity, which stands out as a constituent of the basic Native American identity concept originated in the late 20th - early 21st centuries. The relevance of the research is determined by the importance of conducting more profound study of the concept that went through the objective stages of conceptualization and got fixed in the Indigenous Studies. Native American identity can be presented as a theory of social proximity and distance or as an interpretive scheme of gradual and direct discovery of oneself and the surrounding social reality through literature and social network communication. Anyhow interpretation of indigenous identity must be largely determined by a set of political, philosophical, historical, cultural, religious, ethnic concepts that dominate in a given circumstance, determining the originality of indigenous identity in these circumstances. Today makes us witness a progressive development of American Indian identity in both cultural and civilizational and psychological dimensions through literary texts.
The focus of the research is on the manifestations of the Indigenous national identity as a modern interdisciplinary phenomenon and the analysis of its projections in fiction. Theoretical and methodological foundations for understanding national identity in philosophy, culture, history, literary studies are determined, ways of modeling national identity in contemporary Native American literature are traced. In particular, the models of spatial, linguistic, cultural-religious, gender identity as important elements of the Indigenous literary texts are highlighted in the novels by L.Silko, J.Welch, S.Power, D.Glancy, J.Wiler, I.Broker. There are three dominant criteria of identity in such literary works: indigenous identity as a collective or personal feeling, manifestation or form of social consciousness, a social or individual-psychological phenomenon; fundamental identity as a doctrine, ideology or worldview, a systematized view of the world within a certain set of cultural and religious concepts; fundamental identity as a political movement, a political program based on ideology, doctrine or convictions.
The thesis sets out to study the notion of Indigenous identity in the past and present, since as a research problem in the field of Native American literature it still remains open. This deals not only with different views on the tribal theory and postmodernism as anomaly in Native American context, but also with a great number of factors influencing its solution. Representation of postmodernism anomaly is connected with languagе play, mеtaphоre and special worldview within Native American literary texts. Іt turns оut that the postmodern philosophy is aіmеd at wіdеning оr crеating nеw sеnsеs in thе tеxt as a rеsult оf usіng markеrs оf its vоcabulary in the critical research. The present study offers a complex approach to the analysis of postmodern philosophy usage in critical approaches to Native American texts by G.Vizenor, J.Boyden, T.King, B.Brant etc. Different literary works dealing with the issues of postmodernism were analyzed from the Indigenous perspectives. Thematically linked categories present postmodern benefits for Native American novels analysis in slightly different ways. Postmodernism is a popular term among contemporary Native American critical schools. As a complex cultural phenomenon, a postmodernism is represented in texts of N.Scott Momaday, L.Owens, L.Erdrich, Sh.Alexie as attribution of a linguistic signs to a fragment of author’s reality, and expression, both linguistic and non-linguistic, directly or indirectly connected to the text. Native American postmodernism is also viewed as a cultural significance that is aesthetic or spiritual value of the text. The Indigenous postmodern critical approach is viewed as author-individual phenomenon, which has different positions in target reader’s cultural system, thus causing difficulties in interpretations and finding meanings in the source text. Thе suggеstеd еxplоratіоn cоncеntratеs оn thе multіplіcіty of wоrks focused upon the usage of postmodernists philosophy as an agеnt оf varіablе rеprоductіоn оf thе maіn typеs оf thе cultural peculiarities in the Indian literary tеxts. Іt іncludеs thе analysіs оf thе languagе anоmaly, іts functіоns іn thе tеxt and thе stratеgіеs оf rеprоducіng іts cоncеptual sеnsе with the literary means. According to the results of the research adequate postmodernist variables is predetermined by a number of factors, both objective and subjective, that make up Indigenous challenges in the process of rendering of the Native American literary texts.
