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Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Indians in literature, Ojibwa Indians.
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1999
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PS3555.R42Z63 1999eb
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813/.54
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Erdrich, Louise--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Indians in literature, Ojibwa Indians.
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The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich
Edited by Allan Chavkin
Afterword by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa and London
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Copyright 1999 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Quotations from Love Medicine, New and Expanded Version, Jacklight, and Tracks are reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Chippewa landscape of Louise Erdrich / edited by Allan Chavkin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-8173-0942-X (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8173-0955-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Erdrich, LouiseCriticism and interpretation. 2. Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Indians in literature. 4. Ojibwa Indians. I. Charkin, Allan Richard, 1950 PS3555.R42 Z63 1999 813'.54ddc21 98-58015
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For my parents and Laura
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
Allan Chavkin
1
1 Against All Odds Games of Chance in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
John Purdy
8
2 From Sacred Hoops to Bingo Palaces Louise Erdrich's Carnivalesque Fiction
Robert A. Morace
36
3 Life into Death, Death into Life Hunting as Metaphor and Motive in Love Medicine
Robert F. Gish
67
4 Vision and Revision in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
Allan Chavkin
84
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5 Narrative and Ethos in Erdrich's "A Wedge of Shade"
William J. Scheick
117
6 Of Vision Quests and Spirit Guardians Female Power in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
Annette Van Dyke
130
7 Ethnic Signs in Erdrich's Tracks and The Bingo Palace
Catherine Rainwater
144
8 Indi'n Humor and Trickster Justice in The Bingo Palace
Nancy J. Peterson
161
9 Afterword
A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
182
Selected Bibliography
Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin
189
Contributors
201
Index
205
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Nancy Grayson, Paul Cohen, Mark Busby, Angela Ingram, Fritz Oehlschlaeger, Nancy J. Peterson, John Blair, Robert Morace, Annette Van Dyke, John Purdy, Catherine Rainwater, Robert O'Connor, and Cynthia Lowenthal, and my wife and colleague Nancy for offering suggestions for improving this book. I also appreciate the financial support of the Office of Sponsored Projects of Southwest Texas State University for two Research Enhancement Grants. I am indebted to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 1985 fellowship to work on another project on American literature but which also gave me time to read some of the work of Louise Erdrich. I owe thanks to the library staff of the university, who provided assistance numerous times. I am grateful to Copyeditor Michael Senecal, and to Senior Editor Curtis Clark, Director and Editor in Chief Nicole Mitchell, and the staff of The University of Alabama Press for their excellent advice.
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Abbreviations
BP
The Bingo Palace, Louise Erdrich. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
BQ
The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich. New York: Holt, 1986.
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