Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Allan Chavkin
  • Against all odds: games of chance in the novels of Louise Erdrich / John Purdy
  • From sacred hoops to bingo palaces: Louise Erdrich's carnivalesque fiction / Robert Morace
  • Life into death, death into life: hunting as metaphor and motive in love medicine / Robert F. Gish
  • Vision and revision in Louise Erdrich's love medicine / Allan Chavkin
  • Narrative and ethos in Erdrich's "A wedge of shade" / William J. Scheick
  • Of vision quests and spirit guardians: female power in the novels of Louise Erdrich / Annette Van Dyke
  • Ethnic signs in Erdrich's tracks and the bingo palace / Catherine Rainwater
  • Indi'n humor and trickster justice in the bingo palace / Nancy J. Peterson
  • Afterword / Lavonne Brown Ruoff
  • Selected bibliography / Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin
  • Contributors
  • Index.