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Louise Erdrich - Tracks, The Last Report on Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague

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Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today.>

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1. Louise Erdrich in Context Deborah L. Madsen \ PART I: Tracks \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 2. A Bowen Family Systems Reading of Tracks Allan Chavkin & Nancy Feyl Chavkin \ 3. "I knew there never was another martyr like me": Pauline Puyat, Historical Trauma, and Tracks Connie A. Jacobs \ 4. "To become a bureaucrat myself": History and Law in Tracks David Stirrup \ PART II: The Last Report on the Miracles At Little No Horse \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 5. Power and Authority in the Realms of Racial and Gender Politics: Postcolonial and Critical Race Theory in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Mark Shackleton \ 6. "We Speak of Everything": Indigenous Traditions in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse P. Jane Hafen \ 7. Love and the Slippery Slope of Sexual Orientation: L/G/B/T/Qetc Sensibility in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Patrice Hollrah PART III: The Plague of Doves \ Short introduction Deborah L. Madsen \ 8. "It All Does Come to Nothing in the End": Nationalism and Gender in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves Gina Valentino \ 9. So, a Priest Walks into a Reservation Tragicomedy: Humor in The Plague of Doves John Gamber \ 10. Haunted by Birds: An Eco-critical View of Personhood in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves Catherine Rainwater \ Works cited \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index

About the author










Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She has published more than a dozen books on various aspects of literary theory, American studies, feminism, and Native and ethnic literatures.

Product details

Authors Deborah L Madsen
Assisted by Deborah L. Madsen (Editor), Professor Deborah L. Madsen (Editor)
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.09.2011
 
EAN 9781441110459
ISBN 978-1-4411-1045-9
No. of pages 208
Series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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