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Studies in the literary achievement of Louise Erdrich, Native American writer : fifteen critical essays /
The fifteen essays gathered in this volume, written by leading scholars of Native American literature, explore Native American and German-American Louis Erdrich's fiction from multiple perspectives, offering creative and cultural contexts, thematic considerations and close reading of some of he...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / James Ruppert
- Introduction / Brajesh Sawhney
- 1. Mauser's illness : medical humor in Erdrich's Four souls / Peter G. Beidler
- 2. Louise Erdrich and American Indian literary nationalism / Alan R. Velie
- 3. Flannery O'Connor and Louise Erdrich : the function of the grotesque in Erdrich's Tracks / Thomas Matchie
- 4. A hope for miracles : shifting perspectives in Louise Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Annette Van Dyke
- 5. Trickster narratives of the New World : Erdrich, Dorris, Columbus / Deborah Madsen
- 6. Plenty of food and no government agents : perspectives on the spirit world, death and dying in Louise Erdrich's writings / David T. McNab
- 7. Drums make connections : trauma, memory and healing in Louise Erdrich's The painted drum / Barbara Hiles Mesle
- 8. Vestiges from the early American captivity narratives : captivity, land and identity in Louise Erdrich's fiction / Holly Messitt
- 9. Real names and names that fool the dead : Erdrich's onomastic mysticism / Harry J. Brown
- 10. "To sew is to pray" : disgorging the speech of the creator / Melaine A. Hanson
- 11. 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
- 12. "Power from the in-between" : dialogic encounters in The antelope wife and The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Rachel Lister
- 13. "Affection and freedom and the will to risk" : female resistance and European/American women in Four souls / Ute Lischke
- "14. 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. "A different person than the young woman I had known" : evolving characterization of Fleur Pillager / Gay Barton ; "That animal sinking in her bones" : the unforgettable June Kashpaw / Peter G. Beidler ; "A singular joy" : the memorable mindscape of Kit Tatro / David T. McNab ; "Exactly like an old-time Pillager" : Lulu Nanapush Morrissey Lamartine / Connie A. Jacobs ; "The Divine in Mary Kashpaw" : a tribute to moral beauty / Debra K.S. Barker ; "So very alive to me" : Omakayas in The birchbark house and The game of silence / Ute Lischke
- 15. "I meant to have but modest needs" : [Louise] Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Dee Horne.