The Antelope Wife

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The Antelope Wife (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Erdrich's novel The Antelope Wife makes a leap of style, incorporating deep history from a scene similar to nineteenth century Ojibwe clashes with the United States Army with a mythic child who is raised by a herd of antelope. Her narrative shifts from the physical world of the plains to the spiritual world of animals who can communicate with humans and lend them their traits. She also leaps several generations, bringing the mythic influence on Matilda Roy into the twentieth century where it shimmers in the actions and personalities of the antelope women Klaus Shawano shadows in...

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• Louise Erdrich (Poetry)
• Louise Erdrich (Short Fiction)
• Louise Erdrich (Dictionary of World Biography)
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• Louise Erdrich (American Indians)
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