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Book Details · Table of Contents · Published Reviews · Commentary
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.
[Acknowledgements:]
To A. LaVonne Ruoff, Kenneth Lincoln, and
Louis Owens, whose early critical work in
Native American ltierary studies helped shape
the discipline. Your groundwork made
this volume possible.
Preface to the Series [Joseph Gibaldi] (xi)
Preface to the Volume
Greg Sarris (1-3)
Introduction
Connie A. Jacobs (5-7)
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Connie A. Jacobs (11-20)
Primary Works
Novels (11-15)
Poetry (15-16)
Other Works (16-17)
Recommended Student Readings (17)
The Instructor’s Library (17-18)
Books on Erdrich (18)
Critical Studies (18-19)
Cultural Studies (20)
Audiovisual Materials (20)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
History and Culture
A History of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs (23-31)
Of Bears and Birds: The Concept of History in Erdrich’s Autobiographical Writings
David T. McNab (32-41)
Beneath Creaking Oaks: Spirits and Animals in Tracks
Susan Scarberry-Garcia (42-50)
Sisters, Lovers, Magdalens, and Martyrs: Ojibwe Two-Sisters Stories in Love Medicine
Karah Stokes (51-57)
Tracing the Trickster: Nanapush, Ojibwe Oral Tradition, and Tracks
G. Thomas Couser (58-65)
Tracking Fleur: The Ojibwe Roots of Erdrich’s Novels
Amelia V. Katanski (66-76)
Erdrich's Fictional World
Family as Character in Erdrich’s Novels
Gay Barton (77-82)
Does Power Travel in the Bloodlines? A Genealogical Red Herring
Nancy L. Chick (83-87)
"Patterns and Waves Generation to Generation": The Antelope Wife
Alanna Kathleen Brown (88-94)
Pedagogical Strategies
An Indigenous Approach to Teaching Erdrich’s Works
Gwen Griffin and P. Jane Hafen (95-101)
Sites of Unification: Teaching Erdrich’s Poetry
Dean Rader (102-113)
"And Here Is Where Events Loop Around and Tangle": Tribal Perspectives in Love Medicine
Paul Lumsden (114- 117)
Tracking the Memories of the Heart: Teaching Tales of Burning Love
Debra K.S. Barker (118-129)
Academic Conversation: Computers, Libraries, the Classroom, and The Bingo Palace
Sharon Hoover (130-139)
Gender and Christianity: Strategic Questions for Teaching The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Peter G. Beidler (140-146)
Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
Collaboration in the Works of Erdrich and Michael Dorris: A Study in the Process of Writing
Tom Matchie (147-157)
Doubling the Last Survivor: Tracks and American Narratives of Lost Wilderness
John McWilliams (158-169)
Identity Indexes in Love Medicine and "Jacklight"
James Ruppert (170-174)
Reading The Beet Queen from a Feminist Perspective
Vanessa Holford Diana (175-182)
Gender as a Drag in The Beet Queen
Kari J. Winter (183-190)
A Postcolonial Reading of Tracks
Dee Horne (191-200)
"This Ain’t Real Estate": A Bakhtinian Approach to The Bingo Palace
Patrick E. Houlihan (201-209)
Appendixes
A: Genealogical Charts
Nancy L. Chick (211-222)
B: Maps
Connie A. Jacobs and Lisa Snider Atchison (223-226)
C: Important Dates in the History of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs (227-229)
D: Study Guides to Eight Erdrich Novels
Peter G. Beidler (230-268)
Notes on Contributors (239-242)
Survey Participants (243)
Works Cited (245-258)
Index (259-261)
Modified: December 16, 2010,
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