...Florencia Lauria Abstract This article considers Indigenous refusal to state-imposed US citizenship through a reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020). The novel follows the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa’s struggle to remain a federally recognized tribe during the US government’s...

... texts: The Rifles by William T. Vollman, Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, Green Grass,Running Water by Thomas King, the ‘‘spa- ghetti western’’ films of Sergio Leone, Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich...

...Riché Richardson By Doris Witt. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. $45.00. 2001 442 American Literature The chapter on Louise Erdrich’s reconceptualization of the relations among...

... Wallace’s “anti-teleology” as a political response to the condition of neoliberal America. Understanding Louise Erdrich . By Seema Kurup. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 2016. 122 pp. Cloth, $39.95; e-book, $21.99. In a series of close readings, Kurup explores the themes of colonization...

... century and provides a sociological study of the Catho- lic church. Becker also discusses Greeley’s mastery of comedy and satire and his exploration of Christian ideology. The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People. By Connie A. Jacobs. New York: Peter Lang. 2001. xix, 260 pp. $29.95...

... from one Hemingway collection, In Our Time (1925), and in the final chapter only a single Louise Erdrich and single Vizenor novel. Could Hamilton sustain the coherence of the argument if he expanded it to include important contexts and any of the other thirteen Nick Adams stories published during...

... By Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan.By Jeaneatte Batz Cooperman. New York: Peter Lang. 1999. 239 pp. $29.95. As Jeanette Batz Cooperman points out in her...

... Native notions of gambling and the trickster-gambler character as hero or villain in Native literature. Works by John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor are discussed. Pasquaretta contrasts those Native views on gambling with the high-stakes gambling...

... Grass,Running Water by Thomas King, the ‘‘spa- ghetti western’’ films of Sergio Leone, Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, and the Deadrock novels of Thomas McGuane. Smith notes a renewed interest in the western...

...), Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife (1998), and Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman (1997), as challenging and offering important correctives to the colonial cunning represented by a set of widely discussed legal cases. These include the US Supreme Court’s decision in Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez...

... and literary responses to those moments. Throughout his chapters he discusses Anishinaabe literary writers and translators, such as Theo Bealieu, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, as well as non-Anishinaable writers like Ernest Hemingway, Janet Lewis, Frances Densmore, and Jerome Rothenberg. Throughout...

... and communities of color have been dispropor- tionately affected by environmental degradation and pollution, Gamber focuses on novels by Octavia Butler, Alejandro Morales, Louise Erdrich, and Karen Tei Yamashita that are set in the near-future or present day. He is interested in the ways that ethnically...

... this form was used in the late nineteenth century primarily to represent a single setting or region, the writers Nagel examines—such as Louise Erdrich, Julia Alvarez, and Amy Tan—use the form more frequently to dramatize ‘‘conflict...

.... It groups together ‘‘from a tricky point of view’’ un- likely neighbors in other interpretive frameworks: Toni Morrison’s Sula thus stands alongside Melville’s Babo and Louise Erdrich’s Lipsha in an explo- ration of the various facets and manifestations of trickster lives. National Imaginaries...

... writes, “to create paradigms and methodologies that stem from indigenous systems of thinking.” Accordingly, Noodin roots her exegeses of four contem- porary Anishinaabe writers—Louise Erdrich, Jim Northrup, Basil Johnston, and Gerald Vizenor—in a linguistic analysis of Anishinaabemowin...

... that depict African American slavery, Native American genocide, the Great Depression, Caribbean American dictatorial regimes and diasporas, the AIDS epidemic, and refugee crises, including works by such authors as Charles Chesnutt, David Bradley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, John Steinbeck, Carlos...

... and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk’’ (September 1993), Jared Gardner’s ‘‘Alien Nation: Edgar Huntly’s Savage Awakening’’ (September 1994), Barbara L. Pittman’s essay on Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (December 1995), Chadwick Allen’s ‘‘Hero with Two Faces: The Lone Ranger as Treaty...

..., border zones, the use of Native images in film and fiction, and ‘‘post-Indian’’ tricksterism. Among the writers discussed are Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Mar- mon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor (who also wrote a scholarly piece for this collection). Resources for American Literary Study...

... of the nation but as polyvalent, multicultural narratives that ‘‘embrace what might be called cultural syncresis’’ (5). Contributing authors discuss the role of American mythologies in the works of Louise Erdrich, Norman Mailer, Jayne Anne Phillips, Cormac McCarthy, M. Evelina Galang, Leslie Marmon Silko...

... of the refusals found in Suzuki’s discussion of John Okada’s No-No Boy (1955) and Lauria’s reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020). The protagonists of these novels reject US citizenship as a totalizing form of political and social belonging. In reading Okada’s originally unpopular novel...