Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chavkin, Allan Richard, 1950-

Description

viii, 213 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

HBC 99-3677

ISBN

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

LCCN

98058015

OCLC

39856146

Title

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

Imprint

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Chavkin, Allan Richard, 1950-

Research Call Number

HBC 99-3677