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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
Editor(s): Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, James R. Giles
Pages: ix & 261 pp.
Published: 2004
ISBN: 9780873529150
"This book will be an essential addition to the library of those who teach Erdrich's work, and it can be helpful for those interested in the complexities of the intersection between folklore and literature."
Journal of American Folklore
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
This volume seeks to enrich teachers--and students--understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry.
The first part of the book provides background readings that establish a context for teaching Erdrich and acquaint teachers with Native American traditions, history, customs, and culture--especially those of the Ojibwe, or Chippewa. In the second section, experienced teachers of Erdrich discuss the strategies they use to engage students in a sometimes unfamiliar world. Essays provide information on Erdrich's tribe, the Turtle Mountain Chippewa of North Dakota, and an overview of tribal history for the past 150 years; sort through Erdrich's large cast of fictional characters, with their complicated family ties and clan relationships; examine her collaborative relationship with her late husband, Michael Dorris; and offer analysis, cultural references, and approaches to teaching Erdrich's most widely anthologized poems.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
Preface to the Volume
Greg Sarris
PART 1: MATERIALS
Connie A. Jacobs
Introduction
- Primary Works
- Novels
- Poetry
Other Works
Recommended Student Readings
The Instructor's Library
- Books on Erdrich
- Critical Studies
- Cultural Studies
Audiovisual Materials
PART 2: APPROACHES
History and Culture
A History of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs
Of Bears and Birds: The Concept of History in Erdrich's Writings
David T. McNab
Beneath Creaking Oaks: Spirits and Animals in Tracks
Susan Scarberry-García
Sisters, Lovers, Magdalens, and Martyrs: Ojibwe Two-Sisters Stories in Love Medicine
Karah Stokes
Tracing the Trickster: Nanapush, Ojibwe Oral Narration, and Tracks
G. Thomas Couser
Tracking Fleur: The Ojibwe Roots of Erdrich's Novels
Amelia V. Katanski
Erdrich's Fictional World
Family as Character in Erdrich's Novels
Gay Barton
Does Power Travel in the Bloodlines? A Genealogical Red Herring
Nancy L. Chick
"Patterns and Waves Generation to Generation": The Antelope Wife
Alanna Brown
Pedagogical Strategies
An Indigenous Approach to Teaching Erdrich's Works
Gwen Griffin and P. Jane Hafen
Sites of Unification: Teaching Erdrich's Poetry
Dean Rader
"And Here Is Where Events Loop Around and Tangle": Tribal Perspectives in Love Medicine
Paul Lumsden
Tracking the Memories of the Heart: An Approach to Teaching Tales of Burning Love
Debra K. S. Barker
Academic Conversation: Computers, Libraries, the Classroom, and The Bingo Palace
Sharon Hoover
Gender and Christianity: Strategic Questions for Teaching The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse
Peter G. Beidler
Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
Collaboration in the Works of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris: A Study in the Process of Writing
Tom Matchie
Doubling the Last Survivor: Tracks and American Narratives of Lost Wilderness
John McWilliams
Identity Indexes in Love Medicine and "Jacklight"
James Ruppert
Reading The Beet Queen from a Feminist Perspective
Vanessa Holford Diana
Gender as Drag in The Beet Queen
Kari J. Winter
A Postcolonial Reading of Tracks
Dee Horne
"This Ain't Real Estate": A Bakhtinian Approach to The Bingo Palace
Patrick Houlihan
Appendix
Genealogical Charts
Nancy L. Chick
Maps
Connie A. Jacobs
Important Dates in the History of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Connie A. Jacobs
Study Guides to Eight Erdrich Novels
Peter G. Beidler
Works Cited
Index
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