The Native Family Versus the Dominant Culture in "American Horse" by Louise Erdrich

The Native Family Versus the Dominant Culture in "American Horse" by Louise Erdrich The current interest in what has come to be called "multicultural" literature has focused critical attention on defining its most salient characteristic: authoring a text which appeals to at least two different cultural codes. (Wiget 258) Louise Erdrich says she's an emissary of the between-world. (Bacon) "I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life." Her stories unfold where …

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