Jacklight

Jacklight

Author: Louise Erdrich

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Published: 1984-02-15

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780805010473

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Poems explore the nature of love, faith, and courage and portray the experiences of a wife in a small town


Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Author: Louise Erdrich

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780878056521

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how The Beet Queen, Tracks, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, and The Crown of Columbus have been enhanced by both their artistic and their matrimonial union. Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Native American worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of Native Americans. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book, The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son's health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included are two recent interviews published here for the first time. In this collection, Erdrich and Dorris tell why they have chosen to write about many varying subjects and of why they refuse to be imprisoned in a literary ghetto of writers whose only subjects are Native Americans.


Speak Like Singing

Speak Like Singing

Author: Kenneth Lincoln

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780826341709

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Speak Like Singing honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, and solitary vision.


Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature

Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature

Author: Jennifer McClinton-Temple

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 1566

ISBN-13: 1438140576

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Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.


Modern Towing

Modern Towing

Author: John S. Blank

Publisher: Schiffer + ORM

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 1507303610

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A wide-ranging work on all aspects of towing, in both inland and ocean waters. Part I, The Industry, gives an overview, followed by descriptions of types of tugs and modes of towing. Part II, Operations, covers getting the tug under way, under way with tow and at sea, and special types of towing. Part III, Towing as a Business, deals with the shore establishment. More than fifty appendices consolidate data helpful to the tugmaster. The text is illustrated with more than 300 drawings, photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids.


Reading Faulkner

Reading Faulkner

Author:

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published:

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781617034626

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A handbook for interpreting William Faulkner's most violent and shocking novel


Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O

Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O

Author: Frederic G. Cassidy

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 952

ISBN-13:

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A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.


Understanding Louise Erdrich

Understanding Louise Erdrich

Author: Seema Kurup

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1611176247

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In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book Award-winning The Round House, The Birchbark House series of children's literature, the memoirs The Blue Jays Dance and Books and Island in Ojibwe Country, and selected poetry. Kurup elucidates Erdrich's historical context, thematic concerns, and literary strategies through close readings, offering an introductory approach to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich's writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial identity but from the ongoing condition of colonization faced by Native Americans in the United States, which is manifested in the very real and contemporary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights. Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effortlessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and community in Erdrich's writing. Kurup shows that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of the Ojibwe people and their presence and participation in the history of the United States.