The Problem of Trans-Figuration: Gender, the Jesuits, and the Ojibwe in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Lydia R. Cooper is associate professor of contemporary American and Native American literature at Creighton University. Her most recent book is Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature, forthcoming from Manchester University Press. Her previous books include Masculinities in Literature of the American West (2016) and another book on McCarthy, No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy (2011). Her work on contemporary American and Native American writers has appeared in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Novel, Studies in American Indian Literature, Western American Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.