Louise Erdrich / David Stirrup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stirrup, David, author.

Series:

Contemporary American and Canadian writers.

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Erdrich, Louise.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is a fully comprehensive treatment of her writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich's work and Native American literature, it explores the full depth and range of her authorship. Breaking Erdrich's oeuvre into several groupings - poetry, early and late fiction, memoir and children's writing - it develops individual readings of both the critical arguments and the texts themselves. The book argues that Erdrich's work has developed an increasing political acuity to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Native American literature, and her insistence on being read as an American writer is shown to be in constant and mutually inflecting dialogue with her Ojibwe heritage.

Contents:

Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Native American literature:authorship and authority; 2. 'I thought I would be slicedin two': towards a geoculturalpoetics; 3. Spatial relations: the Love Medicine tetralogy and Tales of Burning Love; 4. From the cities to the plains:recent fiction; 5. The writer's brief: collaboration, (auto)biography, and pedagogy; 6. Conclusion? Tradition, translation, and the global market forNative American literatures; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Apr 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847796622

1847796621

9781781702581

1781702586

9781847793485

1847793487

OCLC:

818847482