The Chippewa landscape of Louise Erdrich / edited by Allan Chavkin ; afterword by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.

Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 213 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Indians in literature.
Ojibwa Indians.

Contents:

Introduction / Allan Chavkin
Against all odds: games of chance in the novels of Louise Erdrich / John Purdy
From sacred hoops to bingo palaces: Louise Erdrich's carnivalesque fiction / Robert A. Morace
Life into death, death into life: hunting as metaphor and motive in Love medicine / Robert F. Gish
Vision and revision in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine / Allan Chavkin
Narrative and ethos in Erdrich's "A wedge of shade" / William J. Scheick
Of vision quests and spirit guardians: female power in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Annette Van Dyke
Ethnic signs in Erdrich's Tracks and The bingo palace / Catherine Rainwater
Indi'n humor and trickster justice in The bingo palace / Nancy J. Peterson
Afterword / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
Selected bibliography / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin
Contributors
Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.

Contributor:

Chavkin, Allan Richard, 1950-

ISBN:

081730942X (alk. paper)
0817309551 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

39856146

Online:

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