LIVING IN TWO LEGAL WORLDS: A LITERARY CASE STUDY OF INTENDED MISCOMMUNICATION IN LOUISE ERDRICH’S THE ROUND HOUSE Cover Image

LIVING IN TWO LEGAL WORLDS: A LITERARY CASE STUDY OF INTENDED MISCOMMUNICATION IN LOUISE ERDRICH’S THE ROUND HOUSE
LIVING IN TWO LEGAL WORLDS: A LITERARY CASE STUDY OF INTENDED MISCOMMUNICATION IN LOUISE ERDRICH’S THE ROUND HOUSE

Author(s): Cornelia Vlaicu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: American Indian; federal Indian law; differend; politics;

Summary/Abstract: My paper suggests a reading of Louise Erdrich’s novel The Round House using Lyotard’s notion of the differend. I discuss how, in The Round House, the differend is born in the encounter between two legal systems, tribal law and federal Indian law, in a colonial context, and how the book negotiates the possibility of recovery and continuation for the American Indian.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 286-292
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English
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