"The Unkillable Mother": Sovereignty and Survivance in Louise Erdrich's The Round House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Paniccia Carden
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 94-116
Description
Provides critical analysis of Erdrich’s novel which examines the high rates of sexual assault of Indigenous women as a metaphor for colonization, and draws parallels between the aftermath of an assault and the state and status of Ojibwe culture.