附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.
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.