Tracks

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"Tracks" is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that exemplifies the Native American Renaissance through its exploration of Ojibwe identity, history, and storytelling.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
author Louise Erdrich
character Eli Kashpaw
Fleur Pillager
Margaret Kashpaw
Nanapush
Nector Kashpaw
Pauline Puyat
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores Ojibwe history
Ojibwe spirituality
assimilation pressures
intergenerational trauma
oral tradition
followedBy The Bingo Palace
follows Love Medicine
genre Native American literature
historical fiction
literary fiction
hasTheme conflict between tradition and modernity
gender and power
power of narrative
relationship to land
religious syncretism
language English
literarySignificance critically acclaimed
key work of the Native American Renaissance
literaryStyle elements of magical realism
multi-voiced narrative
nonlinear chronology
mainSubject Native American identity
Anishinabek
surface form: Ojibwe people

colonialism
cultural survival
land rights
storytelling
movement Native American Renaissance
narrativePointOfView first-person narration
narrator Nanapush
Pauline Puyat
partOfSeries Louise Erdrich’s interrelated North Dakota novels
publicationYear 1988
publisher Henry Holt and Company
setting North Dakota
Ojibwe reservation
timePeriod 1910s
1920s
early 20th century

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