Hard Traveling Down the Red Dirt Road: Exploring Working-class Issues in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and the Bingo Palace

ISBN-10: 1124021396
ISBN-13: 9781124021393
Category: Indians in literature
Pages: 48
Language: English
Published: 2009
Author: Kristy L. Pastore

Description

This thesis explores the ways Louise Erdrich focuses on class issues in Love Medicine and The Bingo Palace. This research fills a gap in Erdrich scholarship because there few sources that analyze and interpret these novels as working-class literature. The introduction explains the characteristics of working-class literature and exposes the Indian stereotypes that Erdrich wants to dispel. Furthermore, it contains current statistics on Native American (especially Chippewa) poverty, education, housing, and employment. Also included is a section on Chippewa history and biographical information on Erdrich. The first chapter "Power Comes from the Hands" focuses on Love Medicine. It is structured around the tribal hierarchies and feuds present on Erdrich's fictionalized version of the Turtle Mountain Reservation. The second chapter "Land, Labor, and Loot" focuses on The Bingo Palace. It specifically analyzes Lipsha Morrissey and Lyman Lamartine because they are foils when it comes to culture, money, and class.

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