Deborah Madsen is one of the leading scholars of Native American literature in Europe. She has assembled a talented group of scholars to analyze three important novels by Louise Erdrich (the early Tracks and the recent Last Report and Plague of Doves). Erdrich is one of the best-known Native writers working today, and these essays, employing methodologies ranging from gender and LGBT studies to critical race theory represent an important contribution to scholarship about her. It deserves a place on the shelf of any serious scholar of contemporary Native literature.

Jace Weaver, Franklin Professor of Native American Studies, University of Georgia, USA

'...Each of the ten essays offers a fresh perspective on Edrich's work, and taken together they illustrate the depth of Edrich's oeuvre and the evolution of her writing over a 20-year period.'-Choice Magazine

The volume is poignant in its deliberate application of one academic theory to one text in each essay...Graduate seminars will study this book for a good while.

Thomas Austenfeld, Department of English, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Great Plains Quarterly

With Louise Erdrich: “Tracks,” “The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,” “The Plague of Doves,” editor Deborah L. Madsen brings together a collection of articles by some of the most published scholars on Erdrich in the field, including P. Jane Hafen, Connie A. Jacobs, and David Stirrup. The result is an important and versatile critical compilation that employs a wide variety of theoretical approaches and enables readers to interpret Erdrich's work in new, relevant, and thought- provoking ways...Another strength of the text is the variety of theoretical approaches the contributing writers use, from ecocriticism to postcolonial theory, from trauma theory to Native American theoretical approaches. These varied lenses help readers to consider Erdrich's work from many diff erent viewpoints. Moreover, Madsen's text “feels” like a unified whole rather than merely a hodgepodge collection of literary- critical essays.

Jill Walker Gonzalez, University of New Mexico, The American Indian Quarterly