The Indianness of Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen: Latency as Presence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis M. Walsh
Ann Braley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 1-17
Description
Explains how Louise Erdrich uses "survival humor" to compare a white world that is spirituality bankrupt, with no meaningful tradition and ceremony, to that of the Ojibway culture that tends to have coherent meaning.