Understanding Louise Erdrich:
"In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeu...
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| Summary: | "In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book Award-winning The Round House, The Birchbark House series of children's literature, the memoirs The Blue Jays Dance and Books and Island in Ojibwe Country, and selected poetry. Kurup elucidates Erdrich's historical context, thematic concerns, and literary strategies through close readings, offering an introductory approach to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich's writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial identity but from the ongoing condition of colonization faced by Native Americans in the United States, which is manifested in the very real and contemporary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights. Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effortlessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and community in Erdrich's writing. Kurup shows that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of the Ojibwe people and their presence and participation in the history of the United States"-- |
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| adam_text | In Under standing Louise tlrdrich, Seema Kurup
offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically
acclaimed Native American novelist whose work
stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe
people to survive colonization and contemporary
reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich’s oeuvre the
theme of colonization, both historical and cultural,
and its lasting effects, starting with the various nov-
els of the Love IVIedicine epic, the National Book
Award—winning The Round Blouse, the Birchbark
House series of children’s literature, the memoirs
The Blue Jays Dance and Boohs and Island in
Ojihtae Country, and selected poetry.
Kurup elucidates Erdrich’s historical context,
thematic concerns, and literary strategies through
close readings, offering an introductory approach
to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for
further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich’s
writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial iden-
tity but from the ongoing condition of colonization
faced by Native Americans in the United States,
which is manifested in the very real and contempo-
rary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights.
Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effort-
lessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and
from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up
the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation,
and community in Erdrich’s writing. Kurup shows
that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex
portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-
dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously
bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of
the Ojibwe people and their presence and participa-
tion in the history of the United States.
CONTENTS
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter i
Understanding Louise Erdrich i
Chapter 2
Love bAedicine, The Bingo Palace,
and IThe Painted Drum 17
Chapter 3
Tracks, Four Souls, and The Last Report on the
Ivliracles at Tittle TVo Horse 3(3
Chapter 4
The Plague of Doves and The Round House 58
Chapter 5
The Birchbark House Series 71
Chapter 6
Poetry and Nonfiction 91
Notes 109
Selected Bibliography
Index 117
113
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