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The Marginalization of an Anishinabe Woman in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Four Souls

Panel: 
American Literature after 1865 II: Post-1945
Abstract: 

This paper contrasts three narrators in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Four Souls, as they define the Ojibwe character Fleur Pillager, who is deprived of her own narrative voice. How and why is Fleur multiply-marginalized and controlled by the language of others?

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Brenna
Last Name: 
Burghardt
Institution: 
University of Toledo