Tag Archives: Louise Erdrich
The Global North: Alexander, Boo, Erdrich, Ferry
February 13, 2013 The blizzard this past weekend made me think of Argus, North Dakota. Louise Erdrich’s country. Love Medicine opens with a blizzard: “The snow feel deeper that Easter than it had for forty years, but June walked over … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Comparative literature, Contemporary novel, contemporary poetry, India, Native-American literature, Translation
Tagged Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, Boston, David Ferry, Global North, Goblin Secrets, Katherine Boo, KIng's College London, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Minneapolis, Mumbai, National Book Award, North Dakota, Sunil Khilnani, The Beet Queen, William Alexander
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Louise Erdrich, Kurt Vonnegut: Germany’s Wars
November 21, 2012 There is a longer title to Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel: “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod [and Smoking Too … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic, Cities, Contemporary novel, Ethnicity, French language, German language, mixed races, Native American language, Native-American literature, Race, Vernacular dialects, Wars, World history
Tagged Cape Cod, Chippewa, Dresden Germany, Elbe, fire-bombing, Florence, Georges Clemenceau, Hiroshima, Kurt Vonnegut, Louise Erdrich, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Woodrow Wilson., World War I, World War II
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