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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her novels, particularly, deserve to be read, discussed, an...

The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...

The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a successful contemporary Native American writer, Erdrich's fin...

The Bingo Palace defines primary relationships in terms of living beings. Each action reflects interrelationships within the Chippewa Nation rather than merely defining cause-and-effect explanations of events in the Upper Midwest. Past, present, and future ties represent an unbroken unity, beyond any sense...

In the October 2005 issue of PMLA, Shari Huhndorf provides a brief survey of the primary challenges facing American Indian studies at the start of the twenty-first century. While she raises a number of significant issues in the article, "Literature and the Politics of...