![]() Yet Erdrich avoids giving priority to one cultural code over another her literary and cultural hybridization intends to deconstruct binaries like the Europeans versus the Natives. The historical tragedies of epidemic diseases, wars, and mischievous federal regulations, Erdrich implies, deteriorate traditional tribal bonds among Native Americans, especially the Chippewa. The recurrent themes in her fiction are the "ties between people and geographical locations, the importance of community among all living beings, the complexities of individual and cultural identity, and the exigencies of marginalization, dispossession, and cultural survival." Her fiction, moreover, is ripe with "amily and motherhood, storytelling, healing, environmental issues, and historical consciousness" which connects her work thematically to the expanding web of contemporary Native American literature (Rainwater 271). ![]() Thus, Erdrich usually appends a family tree to her novels to refresh the memory of the reader. ![]() Owing to the interconnection between most of Louise Erdrich's novels, the readers are bewildered, especially when they pick up her novels out of sequence or, although readers might have read her earlier works, they scarcely remember who is who in later novels. ![]()
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