Studies in the literary achievement of Louise Erdrich, Native American writer
Subtitle: fifteen critical essays
By: edited by Brajesh Sawhney ; with a foreword by James Ruppert.
Contributors: Sawhney, Brajesh.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780773449114
Subjects: Erdrich, Louise -- Criticism and interpretation; American fiction -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mauser's illness : medical humor in Erdrich's Four souls / Peter G. Beidler; title: Louise Erdrich and American Indian literary nationalism / Alan R. Velie; title: Flannery O'Connor and Louise Erdrich : the function of the grotesque in Erdrich's tracks / Thomas Matchie; title: A hope for miracles : shifting perspectives in Louise Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Annette Van Dyke; title: Trickster narratives of the new world : Erdrich, Dorris, Columbus / Deborah Madsen; title: Plenty of food and no government agents : perspectives on the spirit world, death, and dying in Louise Erdrich's writings / David T. McNab; title: Drums make connections : trauma, memory, and healing in Louise Erdrich's The painted drum / Barbara Hiles Mesle; title: Vestiges from the early American captivity narratives : captivity, land, and identity in Louise Erdrich's fiction / Holly Messitt; title: Real names and names that fool the dead : Erdrich's onomastic mysticism / Harry J. Brown; title: To sew is to pray : disgorging the speech of the creator / Melaine A. Hanson; title: Razing little houses, or, Re-envisionary history : Louise Erdrich's story of the American frontier in The birchbark house and The game of silence / Gretchen Papazian; title: Power from the in-between : dialogic encounters in The antelope wife and The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Rachel Lister; title: Affection and freedom and the will to risk : female resistance and European/American women in Four souls / Ute Lischke; title: The human heart is every bit as tangled as our road : six memorable characters in the fiction of Louise Erdrich / edited by Peter G. Beidler and Connie A. Jacobs; title: I meant to have but modest needs : Lousie Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Dee Horne.