Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today. Louise Erdrich has shaped the possibilities for Native American, women's and popular fiction in the United States during the late twentieth century. Louise Erdrich collects new essays by noted scholars of Native American Literature on three important novels that chart the trajectory of Erdrich's novelistic career, "Tracks (1988)," "The Last Report on the Miracles At Little No Horse (2001)" and "The Plague of Doves (2007)". This book illuminates Erdrich's multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. Focusing on such topics as humor, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, trauma, history, and narrative form, the essays collected here offer fresh readings of Erdrich's explorations of Native American identities through her innovative fictions. This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction.

Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today.

About the Author
Deborah L. Madsen is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She has published more than a dozen books on various aspects of literary theory, American studies, feminism, and ethnic literature.

Reviews
Deborah Madsen is one of the leading scholars of Native American literature in Europe. She has assembled a talented group of scholars to analyze three important novels by Louise Erdrich (the early Tracks and the recent Last Report and Plague of Doves). Erdrich is one of the best-known Native writers working today, and these essays, employing methodologies ranging from gender and LGBT studies to critical race theory represent an important contribution to scholarship about her. It deserves a place on the shelf of any serious scholar of contemporary Native literature. -- Jace Weaver, Franklin Professor of Native American Studies, University of Georgia, USA
'...Each of the ten essays offers a fresh perspective on Edrich's work, and taken together they illustrate the depth of Edrich's oeuvre and the evolution of her writing over a 20-year period.'-Choice Magazine



Book Information
ISBN 9781441100979
Author Professor Deborah L. Madsen
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 266g