Tracks (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1912-1924
- Setting: North Dakota
- Principal Characters: Nanapush, Pauline Puyat, Fleur Pillager, Eli Kashpaw, Margaret Kashpaw, Nector Kashpaw, Lulu Pillager
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Biracial people, Midwest, 1910’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
- Locales: Argus, ND (fictive), Chippewa Indian Reservation, North Dakota
Form and Content
Tracks shares with the other novels of Louise Erdrich’s Chippewa tetralogy—Love Medicine (1984, rev. 1993), The Beet Queen (1986), and The Bingo Palace (1994)—its form, a series of short interconnected tales reminiscent of oral Indian narrative cycles; its use of contrasting voices, often recounting the same episodes from different points of view; and many of the same characters. Erdrich’s continuing concern with American Indian family formation and with the development of character over many years here focuses on the crucial...
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