Erdrich Writes About Native American Culture
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Louise had met Michael Dorris when he was teaching in the Native American Studies Department at Dartmouth and years later they reconnected. Then
Dorris left for a sabbatical in New Zealand and Erdrich for a writing residency. They corresponded and exchanged manuscripts, and they reunited the following year. Dorris returned to Dartmouth, and Erdrich came back as a writer-in-residence.
They were married in October 1981. During their marriage, Erdrich and Dorris, considered themselves as each other's greatest literary influences. They publicly said that they collaborated on every single piece of writing, every single word.
She and Dorris separated in 1995; Dorris committed suicide in March 1997. Erdrich now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her three youngest children.
Erdrich is the author of several novels including Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, Tracks, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wife. She collaborated and co-wrote novels with her husband Michael Dorris, She has continued to write novels on her own including The Painted Drum. She writes about her culture over a span of time. Erdrich's narrative technique ultimately accomplishes a holistic temporal view of the Anishinaabe culture in which present occurrences cannot be isolated from the past.
Many critics compare the character of Gerry in Love Medicine, and Nanapush in Tracks to the Trickster, who is by most accounts a people's champion, a joker/healer, a challenger to the gods. Another theme that cultural interpretations focus on is oral tradition.
She owns Birchbark Books, a bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and continues to write.
I absolutely HIGHLY RECOMMEND this writer's works. Wonderful. Her books are National Bestsellers for good reason.
The Painted Drum
The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
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Native American antiquities specialist Faye Travers, bereaved of her sister and father, ambivalently in love with a sculptor who has lost his wife and loses his daughter, stumbles onto a ceremonial drum when she handles the estate of John Jewett Tatro, whose grandfather was an agent at the Ojibwe reservation. Under its spell, she secrets it away and eventually repatriates it to that reservation on the northern plains-the home of her grandmother. The drum is revived, as are those around it.
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Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction)
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Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life. Like the other books in the series, this Casebook presents important background material to establish the context of the novel, interviews with the author, and pivotal critical responses to the work.
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Master Butchers Singing Club
Master Butchers Singing Club
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What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as North Dakota, where he builds a business, a home for his family -- which includes Eva and four sons-and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town.
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Painted Drum, The
Game of Silence, The (Unabridged)
Four Souls / Tracks (two novels)
Antelope Wife, The
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BevsPaper wrote...
I am not familiar with this author but will certainly get one of her books now. Thank you for stopping by my lens Indiana - Land of the Indians! I have lensrolled this to all of my First Nation People lens.
nativewriter wrote...
I met the Lady when i taught at the University of North dakota. She is a beautiful person. Painted Drum is a great read.
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Painted Drum and Love Medicine are my alltime favs! Nice!
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I enjoyed reading this lens and learning about Louise Erdrich. It's great to be in The Phenomenal Women Group with you!
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