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Louise Erdrich
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Fleur, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Leap, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their…
In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, Love Medicine is an uncompromising portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms. Hertha Wong has…
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A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Bidwell Ghost, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Red Convertible, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A study guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A study guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Connie A. Jacobs
Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe’s struggle to survive (Tracks), to the…
Liang Ph D Chen
Like many contemporary Native American writers, Louise Erdrich has created a hybrid of traditional story and novel closely connected to her literary sense of mixed-bloodedness, which constitues a fundamental characteristic…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Frances Washburn
This book details the intersections between the personal life and exceptional writing of Louise Erdrich, perhaps the most critically and economically successful American Indian author ever.
Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. Here leading scholars analyse the three critically acclaimed recent novels - The Plague of Doves…
Steven D. Scott,Steven D Scott
This book examines the twin problems of play and game in American literary postmodernism. There have been many studies of the function of play in postmodernism, but very few have…
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich’s Indian Boarding School: The Runaways, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Jeris Swanhorst
Louise Erdrich develops characters with complex identities in The Master Butchers Singing Club. These characters can be analyzed in terms of the impact family has on their development as individuals…
John Tanner
John Tanner’s fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.
What is a family to do after Grandmother hitches a ride on a passing porpoise and heads for Greenland–especially after they find a just-hatched nest of birds in her bedroom…
Michael Dorris
Winner of the American 1989 National Book Critics, this is a book about fetal alcohol syndrome.
Louise Erdrich,Michael Dorris
A novel from Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award for Fiction, 2012.
James Welch
The author of Fool’s Crow and Indian Lawyer presents an extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage–and his dreams. A nearly flawless novel…
Explores three novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the important and popular Native American writers. This book illuminates Erdrich’s multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. It focuses on…
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Caroline Rosenthal
Study of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology.
Peter G. Beidler
In 1897 a family of six was murdered in rural North Dakota. Several Dakota Indians from Standing Rock reservation were arrested, tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to hanged. This work…
Finding a balance between tribal values and the demands of campus life is a recurring theme in this landmark collection of personal essays.
First published in the United States of America by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1974
A young Native American girl who considers her family’s wood-burning stove to be the heart of her home in the Turtle Mountains must adapt when it is replaced.
Classiques Garnier
Contributeurs: Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Olivier Dorlin, David Elder, Louise Erdrich, Camille Fort, Bahareh Ghanadzadeh Yazdi, Sarah Gurcel, Susana de la Higuera Glynne-Jones, Claire Larsonneur, Florence Lautel-Ribstein et Francoise Wuilmart.
Charles A. Eastman,Elaine Goodale Eastman
A collection of Sioux Tao told in prose a child of any culture, of any time, can comprehend. It presents the tribe’s values and presents them in a language direct…
Christopher Cardozo
Showcasing Edward Curtis’s most compelling and important works, this beautiful publication highlights both iconic and rarely seen images, demonstrating Curtis’s artistry and mastery of the photographic medium
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Jeannette Batz Cooperman
The Broom Closet explores the sacred, psychological, erotic, and sometimes murderous power of housework, using surprising examples from postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich. Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane…
Max Apple,Joel Brouwer
Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland…