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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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Príomhchruthaitheoir:	David, Benjamin
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Ábhair:	décolonisation frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis Métis interruption fantôme rougarou maintenance consolation résurgence co-résistance Canada-U.S. border ghost solace decolonization resurgence co-resistance
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_11896 https://doi.org/10.4000/16309 urn:doi:10.4000/16309 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/11896 2026-04-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/16309 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021) Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles David, Benjamin décolonisation frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis Métis interruption fantôme rougarou maintenance consolation résurgence co-résistance Canada-U.S. border Métis interruption ghost rougarou maintenance solace decolonization resurgence co-resistance 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. Cet article analyse l’héritage métis en Amérique du Nord depuis une perspective états-unienne résurgente et décoloniale. Le roman d’Erdrich se déroule dans la région frontalière de la vallée de Red River, où les interactions entre Européens, Ojibwés, Cris et Métis ont donné lieu à des relations de parenté et d’alliances durables qui ont favorisé les échanges transculturels. Ces relations sont maintenues grâce à la résurgence de pratiques relationnelles métisses. Le roman offre de nouveaux imaginaires syncrétiques, comme le Rougarou, qui menace les traditions métisses autant qu’il les maintient. Tookie finit par trouver la consolation malgré les tentatives coloniales d’effacement et reconfigure sa perception de la souffrance et de la perte. Elle s’empare de la lutte pour la justice sociale et la co-résistance en questionnant la légitimité du pouvoir colonial. Alors que Minneapolis lutte contre les effets de la COVID-19 et de la violence coloniale, Tookie redéfinit et réécrit la présence métisse de part et d’autre de la frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis.
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topic	décolonisation frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis Métis interruption fantôme rougarou maintenance consolation résurgence co-résistance Canada-U.S. border Métis interruption ghost rougarou maintenance solace decolonization resurgence co-resistance
spellingShingle	décolonisation frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis Métis interruption fantôme rougarou maintenance consolation résurgence co-résistance Canada-U.S. border Métis interruption ghost rougarou maintenance solace decolonization resurgence co-resistance David, Benjamin Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
description	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.
author	David, Benjamin
author_facet	David, Benjamin
author_sort	David, Benjamin
title	Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
title_short	Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
title_full	Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
title_fullStr	Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021)
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