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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Louise Erdrich"”.
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich arise from and vary with their constructions of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist movements of the past three decades have concentrated on challenging middle-class Euroamerican …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
… traditional oral stories alongside the works of Louise Erdrich and Winona LaDuke, including <em>Tracks</em>, <em>Four Souls</em>, <em>The Round House</em> and <em>Last Standing Woman</em>. To close, I demarcate the trend of American television shows to appropriate the wendigo, ascertaining a …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… I then trace how contemporary authors, namely Louise Erdrich and Colson Whitehead, challenge these limitations of victimhood. I hope that such a study not only critiques the framework that allows certain identities a space of visibility while denying that access to others, but that it also …
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Frontier Legacies: The Search for Home in the Twentieth Century
… Sow Fall, a contemporary Senegalese novelist; Louise Erdrich, a contemporary writer of Native American and European heritage; and James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), a science fiction writer believed to be a man for the first eight years of her publishing career. Specific conceptual frontiers …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… Barry Ahenakew, Neal McLeod, Marilyn Dumont, Louise Erdrich, Mourning Dove, D’Arcy McNickle, Linda Hogan, Beverly Hungry Wolf, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Adrian Stimson and Thomas King. This work can be understood as the imperative for Indigenous peoples to remember …
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Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle
… the macrocosmic cycles of Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich and consider changes in their form and gender politics. The final 'composite' chapters explore postmodern versions of the form such as Susan Minot's Monkeys. The prose works of Sandra Cisneros stretch across the story cycle continuum, …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… Flynn, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Toni Morrison, and Louise Erdrich. I discuss how the female Gothic genre, including both woman-authored texts and texts centered around women protagonists, has transformed over time to critique social issues beyond singular representations of white women in the home. …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… I argue that Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Louise Erdrich, Alice Walker, Octavia E. Butler, and Amitav Ghosh, among others, revived an American tradition of georgic writings—that is, texts attending to issues of political economy through a focus on relations between human labor and the …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
… female Native American authors, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, and Joy Harjo. The study’s theoretical framework privileges indigenous voices by relying on a paradigm of reconciliation mapped by Native American activist and attorney Walter Echo-Hawk and by employing ethnographic …
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Babel's Apology: Religious Nostalgia and Literary Engagement with the Postsecular Age
… of an entire culture as portrayed throughout Louise Erdrich’s novels, then examining eschatologies in the work of Walker Percy, and finally, Don DeLillo’s portrayal of religious history as it might be applied to mass destruction and death. Each of these narratives illustrate, in their own way, …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
… literary works by Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, both vocal advocates of educating the lost generations - those who were forbidden to learn of and practice their language or tribal rituals due to colonialism - as well as Anglo-Americans on the importance of …
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Memory at work : domestic archives in documentary poetry by women of color
Because documentary poetry is often considered public-facing poetry about public concerns, its representation of domesticity is rarely studied. Arguing that documentary poetry helps poets localize censored historical events, I consider seven female poets of color whose documentary poetry projects …