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Louise Erdrich: A Critical Companion
by Lorena L. Stookey. 168 pgs.

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Louise Erdrich, following in the Native American narrative tradition has, crafted enduring tales of homecomings. Her widely acclaimed debut novel Love Medicine garnered prestigious awards, and quickly made its way onto bestseller lists and into readers' hearts. In this full-length critical volume, Stookey uncovers the layers of wisdom and humor embedded in Erdrich's engaging writing. Stookey, analyzing each novel in turn, examines the characters and themes that recur in Erdrich's canon of interconnected stories. This insightful analysis helps students and lovers of fine literature approach Erdrich's work with greater appreciation for her bold narrative style.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

1: The Life of Louise Erdrich

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2: Louise Erdrich's Fiction: Community and Storytelling

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3: Love Medicine (1984, 1993)

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4: The Beet Queen (1986)

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5: Tracks (1988)

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6: The Bingo Palace (1994)

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7: Tales of Burning Love (1996)

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8: The Antelope Wife (1998)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich
by Peter G. Beidler, Gay Barton. 435 pgs.

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Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

I: Geography, Genealogy, and Chronology

Geography

Genealogy and Chronology

Love Medicine

The Best Queen

Tracks

The Bingo Palace

Tales of Burning Love

The Antelope Wife

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Four Souls

The Painted Drum

II: Dictionary of Characters

Tables of Contents of the Ten Novels

Dictionary of Characters

Miscellaneous Minor Characters

III: Glossary of Ojibwe Words, Phrases, and Sentences

Bibliography

Index
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The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich
by Allan Chavkin. 220 pgs.

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This collection of essays focuses on Erdrich's writings rooted in the Chippewa experience. It considers narrative structure, signs of ethnicity, the notions of luck and chance, her use of metaphors, and her use of comedy.

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For my parents and Laura

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Works Cited

1: Against All Odds Games of Chance in the Novels of Louise Erdrich

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2: From Sacred Hoops to Bingo Palaces Louise Erdrich's Carnivalesque Fiction

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3: Life into Death, Death into Life Hunting as Metaphor and Motive in Love Medicine

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4: Vision and Revision in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

Conclusion

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5 Narrative and Ethos in Erdrich's: "A Wedge of Shade"

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6: Of Vision Quests and Spirit Guardians Female Power in the Novels of Louise Erdrich

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7: Ethnic Signs in Erdrich's Tracks and The Bingo Palace

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8: Indi'n Humor and Trickster Justice in The Bingo Palace

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9: Afterword

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak ("Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris" begins on p. 41)
by Laura Coltelli. 212 pgs.

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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and historians.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Paula Gunn Allen

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan

N. Scott Momaday

Simon Ortiz

Wendy Rose

Leslie Marmon Silko

Gerald Vizenor

James Welch

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Photo Credits
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American Indian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues (Chap. 15 "Building on the Myth: Recovering Native American Culture in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace")
by Dane Morrison. 434 pgs.

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Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Publisher's Note

Acknowledgments

In the World

I: History, Language, Identity

1: "In Whose Hands Is the Telling of the Tale?"

1: "In Whose Hands Is the Telling of the Tale?"

2: The Native Languages of North America: Structure and Survival

Conclusion

Notes

References

3: Kill the Indian, Save the Child: Cultural Genocide and the Boarding School

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Reclaiming Power

II: Educational Strategies

Introduction

4: American Indian Education

References

5: The Case for Native American Studies

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6: Why Native American Studies? A Canadian First Nations Perspective

Conclusion

III: Economic Survival

7: Taking up the Challenge: Fundamental Principles of Economic Development in Indian Country

Conclusion

References

Introduction

8: American Indians and Gambling: Economic and Social Impacts

Conclusion

References

9: Native American Industry: Basket Weaving among the Wabanaki

IV: Spirit and Power

10: The Catholic Missions to the Native Americans

11: Stolen Spirits: An Illustrative Case of Indigenous Survival Through Religious Freedom

Conclusion

References

12: "The Supreme Law of the Land": Sources of Conflict between Native Americans and the Constitutional Order

Perceptions and Representations

V: Voices and Words

13: Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures

Conclusion

Works Cited

14: Native American Imaginative Spaces

Conclusion

Works Cited

15: Building on the Myth: Recovering Native American Culture in Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace

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16: "What Does It Tell Us That We Are So Easily Deceived?" Impostor Indians

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VI: Images and Icons

17: Tomahawkin' the Redskins: "Indian" Images in Sports and Commerce

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18: Reframing the Hollywood Indian: A Feminist Re-reading of Powwow Highway and Thunderheart

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19: Broken Arrows: Images of Native Americans in the Popular Western

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VII: "A Usable Indian": The Current Controversy in Museums

20: The Politics of Repatriation

20: The Politics of Repatriation

21: Museums and American Indians: Ambivalent Partners

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Contributors

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The Complicated Life of Louise Erdrich, in Book
by Karen Olson. 4 pgs.

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Louise Erdrich, in The Progressive
by Mark Anthony Rolo. 5 pgs.

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The Stories We Tell: Louise Erdrich's Identity Narratives, in MELUS
by E. Shelley Reid. 22 pgs.

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Family Systems in Louise Erdrich's the Beet Queen, in Critique
by Gary Storhoff. 12 pgs.

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Fragments and Ojibwe Stories: Narrative Strategies in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, in College Literature
by Lydia A. Schultz. 16 pgs.

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Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks, in World Literature Today
by Jennifer Sergi. 4 pgs.

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Generative Adversity: Shapeshifting Pauline/Leopolda in Tracks and Love Medicine, in American Indian Quarterly
by Kate McCafferty. 24 pgs.

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Structures of Belief/Narrative Structures: Mojtabai's Ordinary Time and Erdrich's the Bingo Palace, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language
by William J. Scheick. 13 pgs.

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Ceremonial Healing and the Multiple Narrative Tradition in Louise Erdrich's Tales of Burning Love, in MELUS
by Roberta Rosenberg. 20 pgs.

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What about the Sweetheart? The "Different Shape" of Anishinabe Two Sisters Stories in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tales of Burning Love, in MELUS
by Karah Stokes. 16 pgs.

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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)" begins on p. 83)
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface: Native American Literature

Indian Preservation: Teaching Black Elk Speaks

Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn (n. Scott Momaday)

Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity (leslie Marmon Silko)

Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Preface: African American Literature

Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy

"Measure Him Right": an Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

"Closer to the Edge": Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Preface: Mexican American Literature

Learning to Read (and/In) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Entering the House on Mango Street (sandra Cisneros)

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography

Preface: Asian American Literature

Searching for the Heart of "America" (carlos Bulosan)

"Growing with Stories":: Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (maxine Hong Kingston)

Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

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