LEADER 03627nam 2200565 450 001 9910811997103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61117-624-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000500841 035 $a(EBL)4386868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001571457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001571457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14828967 035 $a(PQKB)10657970 035 $a(OCoLC)928627165 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47436 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4386868 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11154768 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL849612 035 $a(OCoLC)941700094 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4386868 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000500841 100 $a20160303h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnderstanding Louise Erdrich /$fSeema Kurup 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (136 p.) 225 1 $aUnderstanding contemporary American literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61117-623-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUnderstanding Louise Erdrich -- Love Medicine, The Bingo Palace, and The Painted Drum -- Tracks, Four Souls, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse -- The Plague of Doves and The Round House -- The Birchbark House Series -- Poetry and Nonfiction. 330 $a"In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book Award-winning The Round House, The Birchbark House series of children's literature, the memoirs The Blue Jays Dance and Books and Island in Ojibwe Country, and selected poetry. Kurup elucidates Erdrich's historical context, thematic concerns, and literary strategies through close readings, offering an introductory approach to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich's writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial identity but from the ongoing condition of colonization faced by Native Americans in the United States, which is manifested in the very real and contemporary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights. Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effortlessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and community in Erdrich's writing. Kurup shows that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of the Ojibwe people and their presence and participation in the history of the United States"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aUnderstanding contemporary American literature. 676 $a813/.54 686 $aLIT004060$2bisacsh 700 $aKurup$b Seema$01715964 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811997103321 996 $aUnderstanding Louise Erdrich$94110982 997 $aUNINA