The Antelope Wife Summary
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Erdrich traces several passions through several generations. Anger at rejection, guilt, and longing appear to be fated for many of her characters. Just as Yeats in "Among School Children" questions how to tell the dancer from the dance, Erdrich's first-person omniscient narrator, at the end of the novel, questions: Did these occurrences have a paradigm in the settlement of old scores and pains and betrayals that went back in time? Or are we...

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The Antelope Wife

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The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich An enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, Louise Erdrich was born in Minnesota in 1954 and grew up in North Dakota, where her Ojibwe-French mother and Ge... Read more

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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her n... Read more

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