Louise Erdrich (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Other Literary Forms

Like many other American Indian writers, Louise Erdrich writes in various genres: short fiction, novels, memoirs, and children’s literature. She has published a series of novels exploring the lives of American Indians, usually of mixed heritage, from her own Chippewa tribe. Starting with Love Medicine (1984) and extending through Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001), Erdrich has created an imaginative territory that has been compared to William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. In addition to this “family” of novels,...

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