Louise Erdrich: Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves

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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. Louise Erdrich has shaped the possibilities for Native American, women's and popular fiction in the United States during the late twentieth century. Louise Erdrich collects new essays by noted scholars of Native American Literature on three important novels that chart the trajectory of Erdrich's novelistic career, "Tracks (1988)," "The Last Report on the Miracles At Little No Horse (2001)" and "The Plague of Doves (2007)". This book illuminates Erdrich's multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. Focusing on such topics as humor, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, trauma, history, and narrative form, the essays collected here offer fresh readings of Erdrich's explorations of Native American identities through her innovative fictions. This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Series Editor’s Introduction CHAPTER 1 Louise Erdrich: The Aesthetics of Mino Bimaadiziwin PART I Tracks CHAPTER 2 A Bowen Family Systems Reading of Tracks CHAPTER 3 ‘I knew there never was another martyr like me’ CHAPTER 4 ‘To become a bureaucrat myself ’ PART II The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse CHAPTER 5 Power and Authority in the Realms of Racial and Gender Politics CHAPTER 6 ‘We Speak of Everything’: Indigenous Traditions in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse CHAPTER 7 Love and the Slippery Slope of Sexual Orientation PART III The Plague of Doves CHAPTER 8 ‘It All Does Come to Nothing in the End’ CHAPTER 9 So, a Priest Walks into a Reservation Tragicomedy CHAPTER 10 Haunted by Birds: An Eco-critical View of Personhood in The Plague of Doves Notes on Chapters Works Cited Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index