Louise Erdrich

The poem "Dear John Wayne" is written in the form of a letter addressed to the actor John Wayne, who starred in numerous western films. This genre was set in the western United States and often...

The primary theme of "The Shawl" is the theme of inheritance. This is not to speak of some physical inheritance like money or property but rather of the trauma and emotions that we inherit from the...

"I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy" is a short story by Louise Erdrich. She is the daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father, and she often writes stories that treat...

It was Sigmund Freud who developed a psychoanalytical theory of personality, grouping all human personalities into three divisions that he named the id, the ego, and the superego. More...

Louise Erdich is of Native American ancestry. The “Western” is a genre of film much reviled for its historical depiction of Native Americans. John Wayne was the embodiment of the American West,...

When writing a literary analysis paper, the type of secondary source you need is what we refer to as literary criticism. Literary criticism refers to studies conducted by scholars to "define,...

The final line of "Dear John Wayne" can be seen as referring to John Wayne, Native Americans, or both. Part of the reference is clearly to cancer, and the metaphor is that colonialism or...

A member of the Anishinaabe nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Louise Erdrich is a writer at the forefront of the "second wave" of the Native American Renaissance. Erdich was born on July 6,...

The main positive impact the Europeans had on the Native Americans was bringing the horse to North America. Spanish horses escaped from their owners and the natives were able to domesticate them....