• Dr. S. Adinarayanan

Louise Karen Erdrich is one of the most popular and praised Native American writers. Her novels reflect strongly her origin, and family and community background. The narratives in Erdrich’s novels suggest that individuals are part of a network of narratives of self, family, community, society, culture and humanity and they allow individuals to understand themselves and take control of their narratives and their identities. Erdrich’s ability in developing and constructing fictional characters is a primary part of her success as a creator. She is compared with William Faulkner, who peopled the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi with a rich form of men and women of a couple of races. Similarly, in the same way the reader would call the Matchimanito saga of her first five novels, Erdrich has created imaginary vicinity established around her fictional town of Argus in North Dakota reservation, whose heart is Matchimanito Lake, and peopled it with an assorted staff of men and women of white, Indian, and blended-blood heritage. Erdrich’s works, linked by using recurring characters who are victims of fate and the patterns set by means of their elders, are structured like intricate puzzles where part of expertise about individuals and their members of the family and an additional are slowly launched in a reputedly random order. Through her characters’ antics, Erdrich explores common household existence cycles which also speaks a sense of the alterations and loss concerned within the twentieth-century Native American expertise. The works of Erdrich mirror her multilayered, complex foundation as well as frustrate a mixed bag of abstract sort and cultural classes. In spite of the fact that she is referred to fundamentally as a fruitful contemporary Native American author, Erdrich’s finely cleaned written work uncovers both her Turtle Mountain Chippewa and European American legacies. In her fiction and different compositions she obviously respects the survival of American Indian societies as basic. The aim of the present study is to advance the theoretical aspects of history, identity, and culture in Native American literature with special reference to the novels of Erdrich. The study closely examines the targeted spaces within her novels and queerly re-read them with a view to achieving a comprehensible understanding of the protagonists’ gradually aggravated ambivalence toward troubled history, identity, and culture and their fear of being trapped in the static life mode. By doing so, a more sympathetic reading with the characters will be presented, and it is hoped that such a reading cannot only bring up an alternative which is otherwise missing from the previous scholarly attention, but open up a possibility to arouse more discussions in the future. The novels - Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace - have been selected for this purpose.

Treatment of Identity, History and Culture.

"Treatment of Identity, History and Culture in the Select Novels of Louise Erdrich", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.506-512, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902174.pdf

"Treatment of Identity, History and Culture in the Select Novels of Louise Erdrich", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp506-512, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902174.pdf