The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich | Resources

The Red Convertible Further Reading

Brende, Joel Osler, and E. R. Parson, Vietnam Veterans: The Road to Recovery, Perseus Publishing, 1985.

Brende and Parson combine research and anecdotal information to provide an authoritative account of post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans. This book is written to be more easily understood than other books on the subject, which are more clinical in language and tone.

Chavkin, Allan Richard, ed., The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich, University of Alabama Press, 1999.

This book contains essays analyzing the relevance of Erdrich's Chippewa heritage to her fiction. Topics include Erdrich's expansion of Love Medicine and her role as a storyteller.

Coltelli, Laura, ed., Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Coltelli presents interviews with a wide range of writers whose heritage is at least partly Native American. Included is a twelve-page chapter about Erdrich and her husband.

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