Louise Erdrich
David Stirrup
Abstract
Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is a fully comprehensive treatment of her writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich's work and Native American literature, it explores the full depth and range of her authorship. Breaking Erdrich's oeuvre into several groupings – poetry, early and late fiction, memoir and children's writing – it develops individual readings of both the critical arguments and the texts themselves. The book argu ... More
Keywords: Louise Erdrich, Native American writers, ethics, aesthetics, Native American literature, Ojibwe, textual complexities, poetry, memoir, children's writing
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719074264 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719074264.001.0001 |
