Abuses and Allotments. The setting of Louise Erdrich’s "Tracks" and its importance


Essai Scientifique, 2011

9 Pages, Note: A


Résumé ou Introduction

The preponderance of evidence shows that the setting of Louise Erdrich's Tracks, as well as its chronological sequels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace strongly resembles the Turtle Mountain Reservation in the north central part of the state and Erdrich’s hometown of Wahpeton, in the southeast on the Minnesota border. Nonetheless, much has been made of the similarity of the fate of the Ojibwe characters in Tracks with the historical outrage perpetrated against the White Earth Anishinaabeg from the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887 to the nadir of Native American wellbeing in the early 1920s. In 1988, the same year Tracks was published, Erdrich co-wrote with her then-husband Michael Dorris an expose of this travesty that was published in The New York Times Magazine, which added to speculation that the politicized novel was a thinly veiled account of White Earth.

Lost in the rush to place Tracks in Minnesota, however, was the fact that the historical Turtle Mountain Ojibwe in North Dakota experienced just as egregious a theft of timber-rich tribal land, both prior and subsequent to the Dawes Act, and in some ways served as the textbook example for the fraud committed at White Earth.

Résumé des informations

Titre
Abuses and Allotments. The setting of Louise Erdrich’s "Tracks" and its importance
Université
Northern Arizona University
Note
A
Auteur
Année
2011
Pages
9
N° de catalogue
V230263
ISBN (ebook)
9783656464136
ISBN (Livre)
9783656466987
Taille d'un fichier
434 KB
Langue
anglais
Mots clés
abuses, allotments, louise, erdrich’s, tracks
Citation du texte
Mark Schauer (Auteur), 2011, Abuses and Allotments. The setting of Louise Erdrich’s "Tracks" and its importance, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/230263

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