Where "Indians" Fear to Tread?: A Postmodern Reading of Louise Erdrich's North Dakota QuartetLIT Verlag Münster, 2001 - 241 The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern reading of the quartet shows that Native American authors and literary critics alike need not be afraid to tread into postmodernism, since an interpretation from this perspective opens up the possibility of freeing Native American literature from the limiting label of "ethnic or minority literature" and of establishing it as a vital part of American literature. This postmodern interpretation of Louise Erdrich's quartet offers a discussion of the theoretical issues involved in the context of ethnic writing and its relation to postmodernism, as well as an analysis of her intricate narrative strategies, in particular, her use of multiple perspectives and of intertextual techniques. The main part of the interpretation consists of a reading of postmodern concepts such as magical realism, carnivalesque humor, the relationship between reader and text, gender roles and sexual identities, history and textuality, the trickster figure, and games and chance as can be found in Louise Erdrich's North Dakota quartet. |
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American Indian argues Beet Queen Bingo Palace Celestine chapter characters Chippewa Coltelli concept construction critics culture deconstruction discourse Dot's drich's Erdrich's novels ethnic example experience father fiction first-person narration Fleur gambling gender Gerald Vizenor Gerry humor identity Ihab Hassan interpretation intertextual intratextual June's Karl Karl's Kashpaw language Linda Hutcheon Lipsha literary Louise Erdrich Love Medicine luck Lulu Lyman magical realism mainstream Mary meaning memory Metafiction Michael Dorris mixed-blooded Moby-Dick myths Nanapush Narrative Chance Native American literature Native American writers Nector North Dakota quartet notion Ojibwa oral tradition past Pauline Pauline's person perspective Pillager play plural political postcolonial postmodern literature postmodern novel postmodernism's question reader reading reality relationship role sense sexual Silko Sita Sita's story storytelling structure survival talking tells theory tion Tracks tribal tribe trickster trickster figure turn Turtle Mountain Vizenor Wallace
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