Louise Erdrich

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Modern American Poetry:  Louise Erdrich (1954- )  This site offers access to reviews, interviews, and samples of Erdrich's work.
Voices from the Gap:  Women Writers of Color   The page for Erdrich on this useful site has a fairly detailed biography, partial primary and secondary bibliographies, and a link to a Salon interview done after the publication of Tales of Burning Love (1996)
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)  This is an extract from the teachers' manual for the Heath Anthology of American Literature.  It deals with a story from Love Medicine, but the information provided is interesting background for The Master Butcher's Singing Club, especially in light of the fact that we are told Cyprian is a member of the Lazarre family.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide:  Louise Erdrich  PAL is a very reliable source for bibliographical information about American authors' own works and
Center for Great Plains Studies: Louise Erdrich  This biography gives some information different from what is given on other sites, including some details about depictions of butchers in Erdrich's earlier works.  There is an annotated critical bibliography.
The Master Butcher's Singing Club  The table of contents (which provides a sort of outline of the book) and the cover of the paperback edition may be viewed here. 

Revisioning History through Literary Characters: Louise Erdrich's Pauline and Toni Morrison's Beloved  This scholarly essay (from the e-journal of WILLA, the Women in Literacy and Life Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English) discusses a character in Tracks, not The Master Butcher's Singing Club, but what it says about the importance of what Erdrich is doing in American literature is very interesting.
Louise Erdrich: Noteworthy Free Web-Sites  Anyone wishing for still more sites to examine will find plenty of them here!

 

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