Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
This paper examines North American Métis heritage from a resurgent and decolonial perspective. Erdrich’s novel is set in the Western borderland of the Red River Valley where Europeans, and Ojibwe, Cree, and Métis peoples intermingled and created enduring kinship relations that favor transcultural ex...
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Angles
2026
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| Zusammenfassung: | This paper examines North American Métis heritage from a resurgent and decolonial perspective. Erdrich’s novel is set in the Western borderland of the Red River Valley where Europeans, and Ojibwe, Cree, and Métis peoples intermingled and created enduring kinship relations that favor transcultural exchanges. Those relations are maintained thanks to the resurgence of Métis relationality. The novel offers new syncretic imaginings like the Rougarou that threatens but eventually maintains Métis traditions. Tookie eventually achieves solace despite colonial attempts at erasure and reconfigures her own perception of loss. She becomes an agent of co-resistance and questions the legitimacy of colonial power as she embraces the fight for social justice. As Minneapolis struggles against the impacts of COVID-19 and colonial violence, Tookie re-maps and rewrites Métis peoplehood across the Canada-U.S. border. |
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