![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, the need to know history as it is constructed both orally and textually is indicated by the contextual phrases that begin each chapter. Tracks renders a history of Anishinabe dispossession that moves within and against an academic account of this history. Tracks poignantly portrays the history of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa's struggle to keep their land in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ![]() In The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon offers a way to rework and renegotiate these contradictions. It seems epistemologically naive today to believe in the existence of a past to which a historian or novelist has unmediated access. Louise Erdrich's difficulty in fleshing out this historical saga is symptomatic of a crisis: the impossibility of writing traditional history in a postmodern, postrepresentational era. ![]()
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