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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791952403321

Autore

Stirrup David

Titolo

Louise Erdrich / / David Stirrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2010

ISBN

1-84779-662-1

1-78170-258-6

1-84779-348-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary American and Canadian writers

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Literature

Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Native American literature:authorship and authority; 2. 'I thought I would be slicedin two': towards a geoculturalpoetics; 3. Spatial relations: the Love Medicine tetralogy and Tales of Burning Love; 4. From the cities to the plains:recent fiction; 5. The writer's brief: collaboration,(auto)biography, and pedagogy; 6. Conclusion? Tradition, translation,and the global market forNative American literatures; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich's writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich's work and Native American literature, Stirrup explores the full depth and range of her authorship. Breaking Erdrich's oeuvre into several groupings - poetry, early and late fiction, memoir and children's writing - Stirrup develops individual readings of both the critical arguments and the texts t