The Chippewa landscape of Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is arguably the most prolific and prominent contemporary writer of American Indian descent in North America today. Her novels and short stories have won great critical acclaim and are widely taught in American and world literature courses
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, ©1999
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
9780817309428, 9780817309558, 081730942X, 0817309551
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Introduction / Allan Chavkin
Against all odds: games of chance in the novels of Louise Erdrich / John Purdy
From sacred hoops to bingo palaces: Louise Erdrich's carnivalesque fiction / Robert Morace
Life into death, death into life: hunting as metaphor and motive in love medicine / Robert F. Gish
Vision and revision in Louise Erdrich's love medicine / Allan Chavkin
Narrative and ethos in Erdrich's "A wedge of shade" / William J. Scheick
Of vision quests and spirit guardians: female power in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Annette Van Dyke
Ethnic signs in Erdrich's tracks and the bingo palace / Catherine Rainwater
Indi'n humor and trickster justice in the bingo palace / Nancy J. Peterson
Afterword / Lavonne Brown Ruoff
Selected bibliography / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin
Contributors
Index