Louise Erdrich / editor P. Jane Hafen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hafen, P. Jane, 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Erdrich, Louise.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013.

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited by P. Jane Hafen, Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on one of the most widely read authors of Native American fiction. For readers who are studying Erdrich for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of her life and four essays survey the critical reception of Erdrich's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate Erdrich among her contemporaries, and review key themes in her work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like Native American identity, spiritualism, language, and assimilation issues, as well as relationships and economic and social issues. Works discussed include Love Medicine, The Antelope Wife, The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves, and The Master Butchers Singing Club, as well as selections of Erdrich's short fiction and poetry.

Contents:

On Louise Erdrich / P. Jane Hafen

Biography of Louis Erdrich / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff

Re/creating the Past : Anishinaabe history in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Margaret Huettl

The work of Louise Erdrich : a survey of critical responses / Gregory A. Wright

Louise Erdrich in company : the American writer and her communities / Thomas Austenfeld

Zwichenraum : "the space between" ecologies in Louise Erdrich's The painted drum / William Huggins

Louise Erdrich Anishinaabezhibiiaan / Margaret Noori/Giiwedinoodin

The relentless throat call : Louise Erdrich and poetic voice / Dean Rader

Relative identities : connecting chance and continuance in Love medicine / Jill Doerfler

"What I wished for and what I expected were two different futures" : a narratological interpretation of gender/kinship systems in The beet queen / Sandra Cox

Walking between worlds in Louise Erdrich's novels / Amy T. Hamilton

"Life will break you. ... You have to love" : historical/intergenerational trauma and healing in Louise Erdrich's The painted drum / Patrice Hollrah

From Wallace to Wishkob : queer relationships and two-spirit characters in The beet queen, Tales of burning love and The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Lisa Tatonetti

There are no burning wagons, bead, or feathers in Louise Erdrich's The plague of doves / Debra K.S. Barker

Sister lost, sister found : redemption in The painted drum and Shadow tag / Gwen N. Westerman

Picturing a thousand words : story and image in Louise Erdrich's "fiction" / Joanne DiNova

Resources : Chronology of Louise Erdrich's life ; Works by Louise Erdrich ; Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283803731

1283803739

9781429837712

1429837713

OCLC:

816656150