Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe's struggle to survive ( Tracks ), to the Depression ( The Beet Queen ), to the mid-twentieth century ( Love Medicine ), to contemporary times ( The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise ), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic ...
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Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe's struggle to survive ( Tracks ), to the Depression ( The Beet Queen ), to the mid-twentieth century ( Love Medicine ), to contemporary times ( The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise ), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic Church intrusion, and climatic severity.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2001
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18086785959
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