Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195127218 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A casebook on Louise Erdrich's first novel, "Love Medicine", which came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, "Love Medicine" is an uncompromising and irresistible portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms.
"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Good.. A scholarly compendium of literary criticism Love Medicine was Louise Erdrich's debut novel and won a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was published in 198A scholarly compendium of literary criticism Midwest Book Review Love Medicine was Louise Erdrich's debut novel and won a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was published in 1984. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, Love Medicine chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota spanning more than fifty years and laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life. Erdrich successfully and poignantly evoked the conti. . A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, Love Medicine chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota spanning more than fifty years and laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life. Erdrich successfully and poignantly evoked the conti
American Studies Today . American Studies Today an invaluable companion for readers and teachers of Native American Literature. Wong has chosen carefully, offering a balance of essays by both Native and non-Native scholars and writers that illuminate the depth and breadth of Erdich's reference and also the diversity of incisive readings her novel has received. an excellent overview of key critical approaches to Erdich in four broad conceptual areas: history and storytelling, biculturalism and narrative strategy, individual and cultural survival, and reading and writing self and other
Hertha D. . Sweet Wong is at University of California, Berkeley