Periodical Articles & Essays

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Albers, Patricia."Plains Ojibwa." Handbook of North American Indians. Ed. William C. Sturtevaut. Vol. 13. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2001. 652-660. On reserve

Bak, Hans. "Toward a Native American 'Realism:' The Amphibious Fiction of Louise Erdrich." Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Kristiaan Versluys. Amsterdam: Rodop, 1992. 145-170. On reserve

Barry, Nora Baker."Fleur Pillager's Bear Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 12.2 (2000): 24-37. On reserve

Berninghausen, Tom. " 'This Ain't Real Estate': Land and Culture in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Tetralogy." Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Ed. Susan L.Roberson. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 190-209. On reserve

Bird, Gloria. "Searching for Evidence of Colonialism at Work: A Reading of Louis Erdrich's 'Tracks'." The Wicazo Sa Review 8.2 (Fall 1992): 40-47. On reserve

Bowers, Sharon Manybeads."Louise Erdrich as Nanapush." New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, 1992. 135-141. On reserve

Brehm, Victoria."The Metamorphoses of an Ojibwa Manido." American Literature 68.4 (December 1996): 677-706. On reserve

Brogan, Kathleen."Haunted by History: Louise Erdrich's 'Tracks' Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 21 (1996): 169-192. On reserve

Camp, Gregory."Ojibwa: Chippewa in North Dakota." Native America in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Mary B. Davis. New York: Garland, 1994. 401-402. On reserve

Castillo, Susan."Women Aging Into Power: Fictional Representations of Power and Authority in Louise Erdrich's Female Characters." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 8.4 (Winter 1996): 13-20. On reserve

Catt, Catherine M. "Ancient Myth in Modern America: The Trickster in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich." Platte Valley Review 19.1 (Winter 1991): 71-81. On reserve

Cornell, Daniel."Woman Looking: Revis(ion)ing Pauline's Subject Position in Louise Erdrich's 'Tracks'." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 4.1 (Spring 1992): 49-64. On reserve

Hessler, Michelle R."Catholic Nuns and Ojibwa Shamans: Pauline and Fleur in Louise Erdrich's 'Tracks'." Wicazo Sa Review 11.1 (Spring 1995): 40-45. On reserve

Holt, Debra C."Transformation and Continuance." Native American Tradition in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." Entering the 90s: The North American Experience. Ed. Thomas E. Schirer. Sault Ste. Marie, MI: Lake Superior State University Press, 1991. 149-161. On reserve

Hughes, Sheila Hassell. " Rhetoric and Relation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks. " MELUS 25.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2000): 87+ Online. Also InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.on reserve

Larson, Sidner."The Fragmentation of a Tribal People in Louise Erdrich's Tracks." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 17.2 (1993): 1-13. On reserve

McCafferty, Kate. " Adversity: Shapeshifting Pauline/Leopolda in 'Tracks' and 'Love Medicine.' " The American Indian Quarterly 21.4 (Fall 1997): 729+ Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.

Rainwater, Catherine."Reading between Worlds: Narrativity in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich." Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 163-178. On reserve

Reid, E. Shelley. "The Stories We Tell: Louise Erdrich's Identity Narratives." MELUS 25.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2000):65-86. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP. Also on reserve

Reid, Gerald F."Ojibwa." Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America. Ed Timothy J. O'Leary and David Levinson. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1991. 268-271.

Reid, E. Shelley. "The Stories We Tell: Louise Erdrich's Identity Narratives." MELUS 25.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2000):65-86. Online. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.On reserve

Roy, Lorene."Ojibwa." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. 1339-1352. On reserve

 

Sarve-Gorham, Kristan."Games of Chance: Gambling and Land Tenure in 'Tracks,' 'Love Medicine,' and 'The Bingo Palace.' " Western American Literature 34.3 (Fall 1999): 277-300. On reserve

Schweninger, Lee. "A Skin of Lakeweed: An Ecofeminist Approach to Erdrich and Silko." Multicultural Literatures through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses. Ed. Barbara Waxman. Knotville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. 37-56. On reserve

Sergi, Jennifer. "Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks." World Literature Today 66.2 (Spring 1992): 279-282. On reserve

Shaddock, Jennifer. "Mixed Blood Women: The Dynamic of Women's Relations in the Novels of Louise Erdrich and Leslie Silko." Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds. Ed. Susan Ostrov Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner. New York: New York University Press, 1994. 106-121. On reserve

Stripes, James D. "The Problem(s) of (Anishinaabe) History in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich: Voices and Contexts." The Wicazo Sa Review 7.2 (Fall 1991): 26-33. On reserve

Tanrisal, Meldan. " Mother and Child Relationships in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." American Studies International 35.3 (October 1997): 67-79. Online. ProQuest General Reference.   Also on reserve

Tharp, Julie. "Women's Community and Survival in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." Communication and Women's Friendships. Ed. Janet Doubler Ward. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1993. 165-180. On reserve

Towery, Margie. "Continuity and Connection: Characters in Louise Erdrich's Fiction." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 16.4 (1992): 99-122. On reserve

Van Dyke, Annette. "Of Vision Quests and Spirit Guardians: Female Power in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich. Ed. Allan Chavkin. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press,1999. 130-143. On reserve

Van Dyke, Annette. "Questions of the Spirit: Bloodlines in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Landscape." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 4.1 (Spring 1992): 15-27. On reserve

Velie, Alan. "Magical Realism and Ethnicity: The Fantastic in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich." Native American Women in Literature and Culture. Ed. Susan Castillo. Porto, Portugal: Fernando Pessoa University Press, 1997. 57-67. On reserve

Walsh, Dennis. "Catholicism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 25.2 (2001): 107-127.On reserve

Winter, Kari J. "Refusing the 'Sovereign Territory' of Language: The Old Trickster Nanapush Vs. A Storm of Government Papers." Northwestern Review 35.3 (1997): 115-124. On reserve

Wong, Hertha D. "Adoptive Mothers and Thrown-Away Children in the Novels of Louise Erdrich." Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities. Ed. Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. 174-192. On reserve

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