![]() ![]() Joe’s positionality as a young, indigenous male gives him a distinctive and useful view of his world, and Erdrich uses these traits both to draw readers into the world of the text as well as to further several key themes such as the pervasive nature of violence, the complexity of Indian law, and the importance of confronting those two issues. ![]() Although there are some practical reasons to choose a male protagonist over a female one (namely, that a book with a female protagonist risks being branded a “girl book” – which is a different problem for a different essay), Erdrich’s choice of Joe as the individual who guides us through the story seems like a very conscious one. Because the center of the drama is in actuality focused on Joe’s mother (Geraldine) and the author herself is a woman, it is natural to wonder why she might have made such a choice of narrator. In her novel The Round House, Louise Erdrich makes the interesting choice of taking on serious issues of violence against women through the perspective of a 13-year-old boy-Joe. ![]()
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