"File it under 'L' for love child": Adoptive policies and practices in the Erdrich tetralogy

Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture

Volumn 9780472024940, Issue , 2011, Pages 231-249

  Deans, Jill R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (35)

1. Basil Johnson, Ojibway Heritage (Toronto: McClelland, 1976), 11.
2. Louise Erdrich, "An Interview with Louise Erdrich", interview by Nancy Feyl Chavkin and Allan Chavkin, in Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, ed. Nancy Feyl Chavkin and Allan Chavkin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994), 220-53.
3. Quotations from the novels are taken from the following editions and cited in the text with the abbreviations LM for Love Medicine, rev. ed. (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993);
4. BQ for The Beet Queen (New York: Bantam, 1989;
5. T for Tracks (New York: HarperPerennial, 1989);
6. BP for The Bingo Palace (New York: HarperPerennial, 1995).
7. Far from the Reservation: The Transracial Adoption of American Indian Children (Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1972)
8. Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord (New York: HarperPerennial, 1990).
9. Eric Konigsberg, "Michael Dorris's Troubled Sleep", New York, June 16, 1997, 35.
10. Ned Hayes, "An Elegy: Believing in Michael Dorris", hot ink, July 29, 1997, .
11. Konigsberg, "Dorris's Troubled Sleep", 70.
12. E. Wayne Carp, Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 41-57.
13. Judith Modell, Kinship with Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 2.
14. Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance (New York: HarperPerennial, 1996).
15. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "Social Construction of Mothering: A Thematic Overview", in Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency, ed. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Rennie Forcey (New York: Routledge, 1994), 13.
16. Johnson, Ojibway Heritage, 15.
17. Sara Ruddick, "Thinking Mothers/Conceiving Birth", in Representations of Motherhood, ed. Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 44.
18. Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Mother without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 117.
19. Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (New York: Routledge, 1993), 12-15.
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27. Gerald Vizenor, "Trickster Discourse: Comic Holotropes and Language Games", in Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, ed. Gerald Vizenor (Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 1989), 189-96.
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29. Narrative as Communication, vol. 64 of Theory and History of Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 320.
30. Robert Silberman, "Opening the Text: Love Medicine and the Return of the Native American Woman", in Vizenor, Narrative Chance, 104.
31. Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, vol. 10 of Theory and History of Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 8-9.
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34. Woodward, "Chance", 110.
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