![]() ![]() The essay’s detailed analysis of the novel’s themes, characters, setting, structure, plotlines, and narrative techniques underlines the remarkable contribution of Native American authors to the genre of the American novel at large. ![]() Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Set on an Ojibwe reservation, The Round House combines the genres of the crime novel and the novel of adolescence in order to foreground issues of Native American sovereignty, American Indian law, and a history of political and social injustice. The Round House Winner, National Book Awards 2012 for Fiction. This essay provides an introduction to the Native American novel and to Erdrich’s work in particular, situating The Round House within her larger narrative universe of the fictitious “Little No Horse” region in North Dakota. ![]() It’s set on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is so familiar to her readers, and it tells the story of Joe, a 13-year-old who seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) novelist Louise Erdrich is one of the best-known, most successful, and most prolific American writers today: from her first novel, Love Medicine (1984), to her most recent The Round House (2012), her work features fourteen novels, three volumes of poetry, as well as a wide selection of non-fiction and children’s literature. Louise Erdrich’s 14th novel, The Round House, was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award. ![]()
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