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Borders in the English-Speaking World

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Sandrine Baudry
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Hélène Ibata
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Monica Manolescu

Part I. IMPOSED BORDERS AND CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES

The Decolonial Frontier: Landscape, Maps and Borders in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks

Anna-Grace Scullion

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Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, is celebrated as a writer of place.1 Due to the centrality of place in her writing, critics have repeatedly compared Erdrich with such writers as William Faulkner, noting the vivid particularity of their respective fictional, intertextual worlds as well as the broader national and transnational issues at play in highly localised settings. Tim Cresswell defines place as “a meaningful location” and sense of place as “a way of seeing, knowing and understanding the world” (2015, 12, 18). This definition is crucial to the role that sense of place plays in both Erdrich and Faulkner’s work. More specifically, Erdrich’s Ojibwe heritage is fundamental to her presentation of the relationships between her characters and the land they inhabit. By centring a traditional Anishinaabe relationship with land in her writing, Erdrich produces a radically subversive engagement with the themes of landscape, maps and borders which,...

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