Research Catalog

Title

The novels of Louise Erdrich : stories of her people / Connie A. Jacobs.

Author

Jacobs, Connie A., 1944-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2001.

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Description

xix, 260 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe's struggle to survive (Tracks), to the Depression (The Beet Queen), to the mid-twentieth century (Love Medicine), to contemporary times (The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic Church intrusion, and climatic severity."--Jacket.

Series Statement

American Indian studies ; vol. 11

Uniform Title

American Indian studies ; v. 11.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Continuing the Tradition: Louise Erdrich and the Native American Literary Renaissance. Native American Authors Write Back. The Native American Literary Renaissance. Defining Native American Literature. Critical Work in Native American Literature. Five Characteristics of Native American Fiction. Writing as an Act of Recovery -- 2. Traditional Storytellers. How Storytelling Functions in the Native American Literary Tradition. How Folklorists Have Studied the Function of Stories. How Orality Theory Provides a Fuller Context for Erdrich's Work. Transitional Texts between Oral and Written Narratives. Erdrich's Novels as Storytelling Sessions -- 3. Louise Erdrich, A Contemporary Tradition Storyteller. Erdrich's Life and Work.

ISBN

0820440272 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00056402^

OCLC

44516657

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library