Inhabiting the Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading of Kroetsch\u27s Gone \u3ci\u3eIndian\u3c/i\u3e

Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him Mr. Canadian Post.. modern. 2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon\u27s formulation, however, we see mirrored the opposition between two critical stances: Canadian suggests Kroetsch\u27s search for some fundamental basis for differentiating Canadian writing from British and American, and Postmodern foregrounds his questioning of the validity of such fundamental categories