Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich belongs to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. She was born in Little Falls, Minnesota, in 1954 and raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, a region near ...
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Biography EssayThe writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primari...
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Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comp...
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Like William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, American writer Louise Erdrich has created her own mythical landscape in and around Argus, a fictional Red River Valley reservation town on the Minn...
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The families Louise Erdrich first introduced in a short story, "The World's Greatest Fishermen" (1982) -- the Kashpaws, the Lamartines, the Pillagers, and the Morrisseys -- have also appeared in four ...
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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her n...
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The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a success...
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In the following review, MacDougall praises Erdrich's characterizations in Love Medicine, calling the work “a funny, mystical and down-to-earth” novel.
I grew up with [my mothe...
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In the following review, Taylor compliments Erdrich's narrative structure and examination of issues relevant to Native Americans in Love Medicine.
Set in North Dakota and depicting the lives...
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In the following essay, Gleason examines how humor is used as a metaphor and as a tool for emotional growth in Love Medicine.
We have one priceless universal trait, we Americans. That trait is our ...
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In the following essay, Barry and Prescott examine gender and social roles within Native American communities in Love Medicine, contending that “Erdrich challenges the romantic vision of Native...
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In the following essay, Flavin asserts that Love Medicine is a novel about “disintegration and breaking connections, and of bonding and restoration.”
Louise Erdrich's Love Medi...
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In the following essay, Magalaner maintains that Erdrich's primary focus in Love Medicine is on her characters and their relationships within the Turtle Mountain community.
Love Medicine mar...
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In the following essay, Silberman places Love Medicine within the context of late twentieth-century Native American literature, arguing that Erdrich's novel signals a break with traditional mod...
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In the following essay, Schultz explores the function of multiperspectivity in Love Medicine.
In the early part of the twentieth century, multiperspectivity in fiction was seen as elitist and exper...
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In the following excerpt, Owens discusses the dominant thematic concerns of Love Medicine, particularly the novel's examination of race and religion.
Despite the importance of N. Scott Momad...
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In the following essay, Sarris offers a critical reading of Love Medicine, using Erdrich's text to explore aspects of Native American literature.
“Your grandmother didn't want ...
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In the following essay, Zeck examines the sensual relationship between the characters of Eli and Marie in Love Medicine.
In the chapter of Louise Erdrich's novel Love Medicine entitled ...
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In the following essay, Pittman explores how Erdrich uses time and space to create a narrative world in Love Medicine, noting that “[discovering the literary and cultural features essential to ...
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In the following excerpt, Smith investigates Erdrich's use of the Native American trickster archetype in Love Medicine.
The trickster's constant chatterings and antics remind us that ...
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In the following essay, Farrell provides an interpretation of the symbolism behind June's death in the “The World's Greatest Fishermen” chapter of Love Medicine.
Set mos...
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In the following essay, McKinney explores the negative influence of Catholic missionaries on the Chippewa people and the impact of Catholicism in Erdrich's Love Medicine.
In the last decade ...
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In the following essay, Sutton discusses the recurring image of the red convertible in Love Medicine.
Literary critic Marvin Magalaner has stated that in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, ...
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In the following essay, Stokes explores the role of Anishinabe culture, mythology, and storytelling in Love Medicine.
Even though she grew up off-reservation speaking English, and writes a novel, a...
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In the following essay, Gish identifies how hunting functions as a central motif in Love Medicine.
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and...
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In the following essay, Chavkin compares and contrasts Erdrich's original version of Love Medicine with the 1993 expanded edition, noting similarities and differences throughout the text.
Lo...
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In the following essay, Ratcliffe considers Erdrich's portrayal of addiction in Love Medicine and discusses some of the difficulties she had teaching the novel—a problem she refers to as...
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In the following essay, Mitchell explores the ways in which Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Erdrich's Love Medicine debunk the mythology of the American West.
“Fighting; h...
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In the following essay, Sands considers stylistic aspects of Love Medicine, maintaining that “ultimately it is a novel, a solid, nailed-down, compassionate, and coherent narrative that uses sop...
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Critical Review by Ruth Doan MacDougall
