Studies in the Literary Achievement of Louise Erdrich, Native American Writer [electronic resource] : Fifteen Critical Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawhney, Brajesh.

Contributor:

Sawhney, Brajesh, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Indians in literature.

American fiction--History and criticism--Indian authors.

American fiction.

Erdrich, Louise.

Local Subjects:

American fiction--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Studies in the Literary Achievement of Louise Erdrich, Native American Writer

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fifteen essays gathered in this volume, written by leading scholars of Native American literature, explore Native American and German-American Louis Erdrich's fiction from multiple perspectives, offering creative and cultural contexts, thematic considerations and close reading of some of her recent novels.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mauser's Illness: Medical Humour in Edrich's Four Souls- Peter G. Beidler; Karezza; Spermtorrhea; Gonorrhea; Locomotor Ataxia, Melancholic Neuralgia, Chlorosis; Gas Posioning, Addiction; Medical Humor; 2. Louise Erdrich and American Indian Literary Nationalism- Alan R. Velie; 3. Flannery O' Connor and Louise Erdich: The Function of the Grotesque in Erdrich's Tracks - Thomas Matchie

4. A Hope for Miracles: Shifting Perspectives in Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on Miracles at Little No Horse - Annette Van Dyke5. Trickster Narratives of the New World: Erdrich, Dorris, Columbus- Deborah L. Madsen; Of Trauma and Trickster; Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Christopher Columbus; 6. ""Plenty of Food and No Government Agents"": Perspectives on the Spirit World, Death and Dying in the Writings of Louise Erdrich - David T. McNab; Introduction; The Names and Goin' Home; Goin Home...; The Indigenous Notion of Time; Louise Erdrich and the Spirit World, On Death and Dying

The Blue Jay's DanceTracks; Tales of Burning Love; The Birchbark House; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; Retrospect; 7.Drums Make Connections: Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Louise Erdrich's The Painted Drum - Barbara Hile Mesle; 8. Vestiges from the Early American Captivity Narratives: Captivity, Land and Identity in Louise Erdrich's Fiction - Holly Messitt; 9. Real Names and Names that Fool the Dead: Erdrich's Onomastic Mysticism - Harry J. Brown; 10. ""To Sew is to Pray"": Disgorging the Speech of the Creator - Melanie A. Hanson; Disgorgement

Jouissance Through Bissexual DiscourseGenerosity; Herstory; 11. Razing Little Houses or Re-envisionary History: Louise Erdrich's Story of the American ""Frontier,"" in the Birchbark House and The Game of Silence; 12. Power frim the In-Between: Dialogic Encounters in The Antelope Wife and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Rachel Lister; 13. Affection and Freedom and the Will to Risk: Female Resistance and European/American Women in Four Souls - Ute Lischke

14. The human heart is every bit as tangled as our road: Six Memorable Characters in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich - Peter G. Beidler and Connie A. JacobsA Different Person than the Young Woman I Had Known: Evolving Characterizatoin of Fleur Pillager - Gay Barton; That Animal Sinking is Her Bones - Peter G. Beidler; A Singular Joy: The Memorable Mindscape of Kit Tatro - David T. McNab; Exactly Like an Old-Time Pillager: Lulu Nanapush Morrissey Lamartine - Connie A. Jacobs; The Divine in Mary Kashpaw: A Tribute to Moral Beauty - Debra K. S. Barker

So Very Alive to Me: Omakayasin The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence- Ute Lischke

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-1190-9

OCLC:

797916308