Louise Erdrich | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Louise Erdrich.

Louise Erdrich | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Louise Erdrich.
This section contains 4,454 words
(approx. 15 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Interview by Louise Erdrich and Joseph Bruchac

SOURCE: Erdrich, Louise, and Joseph Bruchac. “Whatever Is Really Yours: An Interview with Louise Erdrich.” In Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets, pp. 73-86. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

In the following interview, Erdrich discusses geographic, cultural, and family influences on her poetry and fiction.

It was a sunny day in New Hampshire when Louise Erdrich and her younger sister, Heidi Erdrich, a student in Creative Writing at Dartmouth, met me at the airport. We drove to the house her sister was subletting from Cleopatra Mathis, a poet and teacher at Dartmouth. Louise and I sat out on the back deck above a field where apple trees were swelling toward blossom, two horses moved lazily about their corral, and we could see the hills stretching off to the east. Louise is a striking woman, slender with long brown hair. She is surprisingly modest—even a...

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