The Chippewa landscape of Louise Erdrich

Introduction / Allan Chavkin

Against all odds: games of chance in the novels of Louise Erdrich / John Purdy

From sacred hoops to bingo palaces: Louise Erdrich's carnivalesque fiction / Robert Morace

Life into death, death into life: hunting as metaphor and motive in love medicine / Robert F. Gish

Vision and revision in Louise Erdrich's love medicine / Allan Chavkin

Narrative and ethos in Erdrich's "A wedge of shade" / William J. Scheick

Of vision quests and spirit guardians: female power in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Annette Van Dyke

Ethnic signs in Erdrich's tracks and the bingo palace / Catherine Rainwater

Indi'n humor and trickster justice in the bingo palace / Nancy J. Peterson

Afterword / Lavonne Brown Ruoff

Selected bibliography / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin

Contributors

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