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Tracks by Louise Erdrich

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Author Biography

Name: Louise Erdrich
Variant Name: Karen Louise Erdrich
Birth Date: June 16, 1954
Place of Birth: Little Falls, Minnesota, United States of America
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Native American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Louise Erdrich
8778 words, approx. 29.3 pages
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...
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Biography of Louise Erdrich
6513 words, approx. 21.7 pages
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...
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Biography of Louise Erdrich
6023 words, approx. 20.1 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Tracks Information
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Tracks is a 1988 novel by Louise Erdrich. It is the story of Fleur and a Native American tribe in the early 20th century. The lifestyle for the tribe is ending and the story is presented by Pauline and Nanapush, two of the main characters in the novel....


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Web site tracks a novel circulating library
01/26/2003: 1,080 words, approx. 4 pages
00-00-0000 Web site tracks a novel circulating library By BARBARA E. MARTINEZ, WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE Date: 01-26-2003, Sunday Section: LIVING Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday Biographical: RON HORNBAKER David Putnam, a Washington, D.C., legal consultant, takes voyeuristic pleasure in watching strangers find books he...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
In new novel, Sparks runs with track-inspired philosophy
10/16/2007: 854 words, approx. 3 pages
MARTHA WAGGONER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-16-2007 In new novel, Sparks runs with track-inspired philosophy By MARTHA WAGGONER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 10-16-2007, Tuesday Section: BETTER LIVING Edtion: All Editions Ask Nicholas Sparks how many novels he's written,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Nancy J. Peterson
5,709 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Peterson presents a poststructuralist interpretation of Tracks, noting in particular the novel's treatment of history as potentially fictive and relative.
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Critical Essay by Sidner Larson
4,764 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Larson discusses Erdrich's depiction in Tracks of Native Americans' loss of land and cultural identity to white colonization.
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Critical Review by Christopher Vecsey
606 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, Vecsey dispels possible criticism of Tracks as stereotypical and improbable, instead positing that the novel's mythic elements bring American Indian history to life.


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Tracks by Louise Erdrich

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