... scene to the Jewish American culture of the early 1900"s. She tells of the cluttered filth of poverty, of the hunger and cold suffer by a people who were looking for the "American Dream"(Zaborowska 118 ). She presents all of this in a stylized English-Yiddish dialect. She makes the issues of gender and authorship not only central but pivotal for her books depicting ... Falls, Minnesota June 7, 1954. Erdrich was the daughter of a French Ojibwe mother and German American father. Erdrich was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her Chippewa grandfather was the tribal chair of the nearby...

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