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Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Lecture II

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Lecture II. Ramon Saldivar Stanford University. The Plunge of the Brave. Doom or Survival? Gender and Identity Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop. The Failure of Traditional Gender Roles. Wars and Warriors Nector’s role Eli’s role. Blending Gender Roles, II.

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Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Lecture II

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  1. Louise Erdrich,Love MedicineLecture II Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

  2. The Plunge of the Brave • Doom or Survival? • Gender and Identity • Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop Erdrich, Love Medicine

  3. The Failure of Traditional Gender Roles • Wars and Warriors • Nector’s role • Eli’s role Erdrich, Love Medicine

  4. Blending Gender Roles, II • Marie Kashpaw • Lulu Lamartine Erdrich, Love Medicine

  5. Lipsha Morrissey and Gerry Nanapush • Rituals of transformation • Gerry Nanapush • Combines tradition and magic • Modern political consciousness • Lipsha Morrissey • Inherits June’s features • Gerry attention to the old traditions Erdrich, Love Medicine

  6. Trickster Figures • In Chippewa stories • Nanabozho, emisary of Kiche Manitou, the Great Spirit • Nanabozho • Teacher, helper, healer • Buffoon, “tricky one” • Courageous, generous, resourceful • Inept, indecisive, inconstant • Resists Definition/Classification Erdrich, Love Medicine

  7. Lipshaw Morrissey • Like Gerry, his father: • Masculine/feminine • “the touch” • Medicine as remedy/poison • Coming Home Erdrich, Love Medicine

  8. Medicine, Love Medicine, and the Pharmakon • Jacques Derrida, Dissemination • Medicine: Pharmakos • Healing drug and philtre that is: • Remedy • Poison • LM 241, 245-46 Erdrich, Love Medicine

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