Erdrich, Louise

This dissertation investigates several paradigmatic relationships between the concepts “home” and “the frontier.” It focuses on four writers of the twentieth century from divergent cultural and literary contexts. Each writer depicts the psychic paradox of feeling homeless in one…

This dissertation examines the interventions of Native American writers D'Arcy McNickle, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale into a history of representations of "Indians." Representations--artistic, scientific, and political--have influenced conceptions of an A…

This dissertation specifically examines the ways Native American and African feminisms question the assumption that patriarchy and its consequent subordination of women to male dominance are adequately described by traditional western feminism. The dissertation begins with the s…