The Beet Queen

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The Beet Queen (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)

The Work

Louise Erdrich’s second novel, The Beet Queen, is centered in the fictional little town of Argus, somewhere in North Dakota. Unlike her other novels of people living on reservations, the characters in this story are mostly European Americans, and those Native Americans who exist have very tenuous ties to their roots and to the reservation that lies just outside the town. Racism, poverty, and cultural conflict are not in the foreground in this novel, which makes it different from most novels by Native American authors. Instead, European Americans, Native...

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• The Beet Queen (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
• The Beet Queen (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
• The Beet Queen (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• The Beet Queen (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
• The Beet Queen (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
• The Beet Queen (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

See Also:

• Louise Erdrich (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Louise Erdrich (Poetry)
• Louise Erdrich (Short Fiction)
• Louise Erdrich (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Louise Erdrich (Long Fiction)
• Louise Erdrich (American Indians)
• Louise Erdrich (Identities and Issues)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)

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• - The Beet Queen summary and study guide in the quickNotes.