The Chippewa Landscape of Louise ErdrichAllan Richard Chavkin University of Alabama Press, 1999 - 213 Seiten This collection of essays focuses on Erdrich's writings rooted in the Chippewa experience. The contributors investigate narrative structure, signs of ethnicity, the notions of luck and chance, her use of metaphors, her efforts to counter stereotypes of American Indian women, and her use of comedy. |
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... culture . Implicit in the story is the assumption that in life there is some sacred mystery beyond human understanding . Scheick locates the source of this assumption in Chip- pewa culture and examines the circle , arc , and wedge ...
... culture . Implicit in the story is the assumption that in life there is some sacred mystery beyond human understanding . Scheick locates the source of this assumption in Chip- pewa culture and examines the circle , arc , and wedge ...
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... culture that has oppressed them . Lyman's new political conscience is a remarkable change from his earlier con- tempt for the " back - to - the - buffalo types . ” In a passage that might aptly serve as the premise of the political ...
... culture that has oppressed them . Lyman's new political conscience is a remarkable change from his earlier con- tempt for the " back - to - the - buffalo types . ” In a passage that might aptly serve as the premise of the political ...
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... cultures . This cyclic feature of Native American ceremonial time , frequently represented as a circle , is as structurally important in Erdrich's artistic use of Chippewa culture as it is in King's artistic use of Blackfeet culture ...
... cultures . This cyclic feature of Native American ceremonial time , frequently represented as a circle , is as structurally important in Erdrich's artistic use of Chippewa culture as it is in King's artistic use of Blackfeet culture ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Narrative and Ethos in Erdrichs | 4 |
Against All Odds | 8 |
Urheberrecht | |
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1984 Love Medicine American Indian Literatures American Literature Anishinabe Argus Bakhtin Beet Queen Bingo Palace Burning Love carnival carnivalesque casino chance chapter Chippewa comic critics culture daughter Dot's Erdrich and Michael Erdrich's fiction Erdrich's Love Medicine Erdrich's novels ethnic sign Euro-American Fleur future gambling Gerald Vizenor Gerry Gordie Gordie's grotesque heart heritage hunter hunting Indi'n Humor Jack Jacklight John Purdy June Karl Kashpaw land Lipsha Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich's Love Louise Erdrich's Tracks luck Lulu Lulu's Lyman Marie's metaphor Michael Dorris mother Nanapush Nancy Feyl Chavkin narrative narrator Nector North Dakota Ojibwe oral Paula Gunn Allen Pauline Pillager play postmodern Rainwater reader reading reservation resurrected Rushes Bear scene sense sexual Shawnee Ray Sister Leopolda Sita snare storytelling tion traditional transformation tribal tribe trickster vision quest Wedge of Shade Wild Geese women writers Zelda