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Book Details · Table of Contents · Published Reviews · Commentary
ISBN 3825855988 (paper)
OCLC# 48720644
241 pages
Library of Congress Subject Headings Assigned:
Named Person:
Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation.
I. INTRODUCTION (1-5)
II. TRADITIONS IN CONFLICT (7-43)
II.1. The Silko-Erdrich Controversy (7-18)
II.2. Native vs. Mainstream American Literary and Cultural Identity (18-43)
II.2.a. Ethnicity and Native American Aesthetics (18-31)
II.2.b. Native American Literature: History and Oral Tradition (31-43)
III. POSTMODERN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES (45-84)
III.1. Multiple Perspectives (45-72)
III.1.a. Many Talking Heads: First-Person Narrators (45-60)
III.1.b. Gossiping Community: The First-Person Plural Narrator (60-72)
III.2. Intertextuality (72-84)
IV. POSTMODERN CONCEPTS IN THE NORTH DAKOTA QUARTET (85-216)
IV.1. Love Medicine (1984, rpt. 1993) (85-110)
IV.1.a. Magical Realism (85-98)
IV.1.b. Carnivalesque Humor (99-110)
IV.2. The Beet Queen (1986) (111-144)
IV.2.a. The Reader and the Text (111-130)
IV.2.b. Gender Roles and Sexual Identities (131-144)
IV.3. Tracks (1988) (144-195)
IV.3.a. History as Text--Text as History (144-171)
IV.3.b. The Trickster Figure (172-195)
IV.4. The Bingo Palace (1994) (195-216)
IV.4. Games and Chance (195-216)
V. CONCLUSION (217-218)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (219-241)
Modified: December 16, 2010,
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