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    Understanding Louise Erdrich
    Understanding Louise Erdrich
    Understanding Louise Erdrich
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    Understanding Louise Erdrich

    By Seema Kurup

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateDec 30, 2015
    ISBN9781611176247
    Understanding Louise Erdrich
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    Seema Kurup

    Seema Kurup is a professor of English at William Rainey Harper College. She received her Ph.D. in English from Kent State University, where her research interests focused on postmodern American literature and theory and multicultural women’s literature. Her prior publications include book chapters on postmodern American literature and composition, as well as reference essays on various figures in twentieth century American literature.

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