Louise Erdrich''s Love Medicine - A Casebook

Zusatztext Highly recommended reading for students of contemporary Native American experience in general, and the writings of Louise Erdrich in particular. Klappentext Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life. Like the other books in the series, this Casebook presents important background material to establish the context of the novel, interviews with the author, and pivotal critical responses to the work. Zusammenfassung Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, Love Medicine is an uncompromising and irresistible portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms. Hertha Wong has established herself as the leading commentator on Erdrich.

Product details

• Authors: Hertha Dawn Wong
• Assisted by: Hertha D. Sweet Wong (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.1999
• EAN: 9780195127225
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512722-5
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Contemporary Fict; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies