Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"Highly recommended reading for students of contemporary Native American experience in general, and the writings of Louise Erdrich in particular."--The Midwest Book Review
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
The Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota: its history as depicted in Louise Erdich's Love medicine and The beet queen / Julie Maristuen-Rodakowski -- From the time immemorial: Native American traditions in contemporary short fiction / Helen Jaskoski -- Love medicine: voices and margins / Kathleen M. Sands -- Where I ought to be: a writer's sense of place / Louise Erdrich -- Erdich and Dorris's mixed-bloods and multiple narratives / Louis Owens -- Celebrating culture: Love medicine / James Ruppert -- Louise Erdrich's Love medicine: narrative communities and the short story cycle / Hertha D. Sweet Wong -- Interviews with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Nancy Feyl Chavkin, and Allan Chavkin -- "Her laugh an ace": the function of humor in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine / William Gleason -- Opening the text: Love medicine and the return of the Native American woman / Robert Silberman -- Interviews with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris / Laura Coltelli and Joseph Bruchac -- Reading between worlds: narrativity in the fiction of Louise Erdrich / Catherine Rainwater -- Reading Louise Erdrich: Love medicine as home medicine / Greg Sarris -- Vision and revision in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine / Allan Chavkin -- Rose nights, summer storms, lists of spiders and literary mothers / Louise Erdrich -- Chronology of events in Love medicine / Peter G. Beidler and Gay Barton.