Louise Erdrich : Tracks ; the Last report on the miracles at Little No Horse ; the Plague of Doves / edited by Deborah L. Madsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madsen, Deborah L.

Series:

Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Erdrich, Louise.

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Erdrich, Louise. Last report on the miracles at Little No Horse.

Erdrich, Louise. Plague of doves.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

'Erdrich is one of the best-known Native writers working today, and these essays, employing methodologies ranging from gender and LGBT studies to critical race theory represent an important contribution to scholarship about her. It deserves a place on the shelf of any serious scholar of contemporary Native literature.'JACE WEAVER, Franklin Professor of Native American Studies, University of Georgia, USA Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Louise Erdrich the aesthetics of Mino Bimaadiziwin / Deborah L. Madsen

pt. I : Tracks. 2. A Bowen family systems reading of Tracks / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin

3. "I knew there never was another martyr like me" : Pauline Puyat, historical trauma and Tracks / Connie A. Jacobs

4. "To become a bureaucrat myself" : history and law in Tracks / David Stirrup

pt. II : The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse. 5. Power and authority in the realms of racial and gender politics : postcolonial and critical race theory in The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Mark Shackleton

6. "We speak of everything" : indigenous traditions in The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / P. Jane Hafen

7. Love and the slippery slope of sexual orientation : L/G/B/T/Q etc. Sensibility in The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Patrice Hollrah

pt. III : The plague of doves. 8. "It all does come to nothing in the end" : nationalism and gender in Louise Erdrich's The plague of doves / Gina Valentino

9. So, a priest walks into a reservation tragicomedy : humor in The plague of doves / John Gamber

10. Haunted by birds : an eco-critical view of personhood in Louise Erdrich's The plague of doves / Catherine Rainwater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781441110459

1441110453

9781441100979

1441100970

OCLC:

657603116

Publisher Number:

60001443164