Review of Louise Erdrich: Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves edited by Deborah L. Madsen

Authors

Thomas Austenfeld, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Date of this Version

Fall 2012

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 32:4 (Fall 2012).

Comments

Copyright © 2012 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

Important North American novels published since 1990, discussed in three parts, each containing three essays on a total of three key recent works: this is the formal straitjacket the publication format of the Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction imposes on its editors. Each of the nine contributors to this volume is committed to a particular theoretical approach, some so strongly that their essays momentarily turn into handbook articles on the theory in question beforealmost as an afterthought-coming back to Louise Erdrich's novels.