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Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Title: Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / edited by Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin.
Author: Erdrich, Louise.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xxv, 262 pages : portrait; 23 cm.

Summary

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, perhaps the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how The Beet Queen, Tracks, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, and The Crown of Columbus have been enhanced by both their artistic and their matrimonial union.
Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Indian worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of American Indians. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son's health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included also are two recent interviews published here for the first time.
In this collection Erdrich and Dorris tell why they have chosen to write about many varying subjects and why they refuse to be imprisoned in a literary ghetto of writers whose only subjects are Native Americans.

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

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Contents

Life, Art Are One for Prize Novelist / Malcolm Jones -- Intimate Collaboration or "A Novel Partnership" / Shelby Grantham -- Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Laura Coltelli -- An Interview with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Hertha D. Wong -- Behind Every Great Woman... ? Louise Erdrich's True-Life Adventures / Geoffrey Stokes -- Writers and Partners / Gail Caldwell -- Belles Lettres Interview: Louise Erdrich / Nan Nowick -- Louise Erdrich / Nora Frenkiel -- A Novel Arrangement / Dan Cryer -- Something Ventured / Georgia Croft -- Whatever Is Really Yours: An Interview with Louise Erdrich / Joseph Bruchac -- On Native Ground: An Interview with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Sharon White and Glenda Burnside -- Marriage for Better or Words / Charles Trueheart -- Two Native American Voices / Michael Huey -- Catharsis After Denial / Rebecca Bailey -- PW Interviews: Michael Dorris / Dulcy Brainard -- Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Bill Moyers -- Louise Erdrich / Mickey Pearlman.
Tales from a Literary Marriage / Vince Passaro -- Double Vision: An Interview with the Authors / Douglas Foster -- Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris: A Marriage of Minds / Michael Schumacher -- An Interview with Michael Dorris / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin -- An Interview with Louise Erdrich / Nancy Feyl Chavkin and Allan Chavkin.

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93029902

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries