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Title: Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Lecture II


1
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine Lecture II
  • Ramon Saldivar
  • Stanford University

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

3
The Failure of Traditional Gender Roles
  • Wars and Warriors
  • Nectors role
  • Elis role

4
Blending Gender Roles, II
  • Marie Kashpaw
  • Lulu Lamartine

5
Lipsha Morrissey and Gerry Nanapush
  • Rituals of transformation
  • Gerry Nanapush
  • Combines tradition and magic
  • Modern political consciousness
  • Lipsha Morrissey
  • Inherits Junes features
  • Gerry attention to the old traditions

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

7
Lipshaw Morrissey
  • Like Gerry, his father
  • Masculine/feminine
  • the touch
  • Medicine as remedy/poison
  • Coming Home

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