Erdrich Criticism

Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong. Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook. NY, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of California Berkeley.

• Wong's book is a collection of sixteen reprinted critical essays, two reprinted short pieces by Erdrich, and a "selected bibliography."

Book Details:

ISBN 0195127218 (cloth); 0195127226 (paper)
OCLC# 39556419
ix, 232 pages

Library of Congress Subject Headings Assigned:

Descriptor:
Indians in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Ojibwa Indians.

Named Person:
Erdrich, Louise. Love medicine.
Erdrich, Louise, 1954- Love medicine.

Geographic:
North Dakota -- In literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction (by Wong), pp. 3-10.

Part I. Contexts: History, Culture and Storytelling
Maristuen-Rodakowski, Julie. "The Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota: Its History as Depicted in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and The Beet Queen," pp. 13-26.
Jaskoski, Helen. "From the Time Immemorial: Native American Traditions in Contemporary Short Fiction," pp. 27-34.
Sands, Kathleen M. "Love Medicine: Voices and Margins," pp. 35-42.
Erdrich, Louise. "Where I Ought to Be: A Writer's Sense of Place," pp. 43-50.

Part II. Mixed Identities and Multiple Narratives
Owens, Louis. "Erdrich and Dorris's Mixed-bloods and Multiple Narratives," pp. 53-66..
Ruppert, James. "Celebrating Culture: Love Medicine," pp. 67-84.
Wong, Hertha Sweet. "Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: Narrative Communities and the Short Story Cycle," pp. 85-106.
"Interviews with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris,"
Wong (1987), pp. 107-109.
Chavkin, Nancy Feyl and Allan Chavkin, pp. 109-112.

Part III. Individual and Cultural Survival: Humor and Homecoming
Gleason, William. "'Her Laugh an Ace': The Function of Humor in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine," pp. 115-135..
Silberman, Robert. "Opening the Text: Love Medicine and the Return of the Native American Woman," pp. 136-154.
"Interviews with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris,"
Coltelli, Laura (1990), pp. 155-158.
Bruchac, Joseph (1987), pp. 158-160.

Part IV. Reading Self/Reading Other
Rainwater, Catherine. "Reading between Worlds: Narrativity in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich," pp. 163-178.
Sarris, Greg. "Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine as Home Medicine," pp. 179-210.
Chavkin, Allan. "Vision and Revision in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine," pp. 211-219.
Erdrich, Louise. "Rose Nights, Summer Storms, Lists of Spiders and Literary Mothers," pp. 220-223.
Beidler, Peter G. and Gay Barton. "Chronology of Events in Love Medicine," pp. 225-228.

Selected Bibliography, pp. 229-232.

Published Reviews:

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Modified: June 02, 2008,