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Greg Sarris is currently Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University and chair of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria (formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok).
Connie Jacobs is currently Assistant Professor of English at San Juan College.
James Giles is currently Professor of English at Northern Illinois University.
ISBN 0873529146 (cloth); 0873529154 (paper)
OCLC# 56066412
xi, 261 pages
Library of Congress Subject Headings Assigned:
Descriptor:
Women and literature -- United States -- Study and teaching.
Indians in literature -- Study and teaching.
Named Person:
Erdrich, Louise -- Study and teaching.
Preface to the Series [Joseph Gibaldi]
Preface to the Volume
Greg Sarris
Introduction
Connie A. Jacobs
PART ONE: MATERIALS Connie A. Jacobs
Primary Works
Novels
Poetry
Other Works
Recommended Student Readings
The Instructor’s Library
Books on Erdrich
Critical Studies
Cultural Studies
Audiovisual Materials
PART TWO: APPROACHES
History and Culture
A History of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs
Of Bears and Birds: The Concept of History in Erdrich’s
Autobiographical Writings
David T. McNab
Beneath Creaking Oaks: Spirits and Animals in Tracks
Susan Scarberry-Garcia
Sisters, Lovers, Magdalens, and Martyrs: Ojibwe Two-Sisters Stories
in Love Medicine
Karah Stokes
Tracing the Trickster: Nanapush, Ojibwe Oral Tradition, and Tracks
G. Thomas Couser
Tracking Fleur: The Ojibwe Roots of Erdrich’s Novels
Amelia V. Katanski
Erdrich's Fictional World
Family as Character in Erdrich’s Novels
Gay Barton
Does Power Travel in the Bloodlines? A Genealogical Red Herring
Nancy L. Chick
"Patterns and Waves Generation to Generation": The Antelope Wife
Alanna Kathleen Brown
Pedagogical Strategies
An Indigenous Approach to Teaching Erdrich’s Works
Gwen Griffin and P. Jane Hafen
Sites of Unification: Teaching Erdrich’s Poetry
Dean Rader
"And Here Is Where Events Loop Around and Tangle": Tribal
Perspectives in Love Medicine
Paul Lumsden
Tracking the Memories of the Heart: Teaching Tales of Burning Love
Debra K.S. Barker
Academic Conversation: Computers, Libraries, the Classroom, and
The Bingo Palace
Sharon Hoover
Gender and Christianity: Strategic Questions for Teaching The Last
Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Peter G. Beidler
Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
Collaboration in the Works of Erdrich and Michael Dorris:
A Study in the Process of Writing
Tom Matchie
Doubling the Last Survivor: Tracks and American Narratives of Lost Wilderness
John McWilliams
Identity Indexes in Love Medicine and "Jacklight"
James Ruppert
Reading The Beet Queen from a Feminist Perspective
Vanessa Holford Diana
Gender as a Drag in The Beet Queen
Kari J. Winter
A Postcolonial Reading of Tracks
Dee Horne
"This Ain’t Real Estate": A Bakhtinian Approach to
The Bingo Palace
Patrick E. Houlihan
Appendixes
A: Genealogical Charts
Nancy L. Chick
B: Maps
Connie A. Jacobs
C: Important Dates in the History of the Turtle Mountain Band of
Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs
D: Study Guides to Eight Erdrich Novels
Peter G. Beidler
Notes on Contributors
Survey Participants
Works Cited
Index
Modified: August 13, 2008,
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